RE: Source navigator roadmap, features list, etc.?

[Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com>]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, William Gacquer wrote:

> Yahoo! The community rules!
> 
> More seriously, if I can give you my wishlist...
> 
> 1/ automatic recognition of new files in the project directories

Not sure about that one. Perhaps a feature to rescan for new files
would be a good idea, but it should not be automatic.

> 2/ a better interface with CVS ( why not an integration of tkCVS in SN?)

This one is a well known problem that we need to deal with.

> 3/ an expand/collapse button in the project tree view (expansion is the
> default but my project is so big that I would prefer a collapse by default)
> 4/ Drag&Drop with KDE/Gnome (I known, that's Tk's stuff)

What exactly are you itching to drop into SN? Drag and Drop is something
that seems really cool but I find to be less than useful unless it
is very consistent across applications.

> 5/ a UML-istic class view (even if it's not editable)
> 6/ clicking on xref-ed objects/functions opens the file where the
> object/function is used (by default, it opens the file a function
> implementation)

Yup, I looked into this before but I could not fix it without
a redesign.

> 7/ a clever "replace-in-files"
> 8/ an interface with GNAT (with tkGNAT?)
> 9/ a autoconf/automake project creation as in kdevelop

This one is hard to do in a general way, but we could do
something like writing a configure.in for the user in the
same way that we write a Makefile.

> 10/ a possibility to hide/show all SN-controlled windows

This is already implemented, see the Windows->Iconize Project
menu item.

> 11/ a search-and-replace dialog that can jump directly to the next occurence
> by clicking on replace
> 12/ working real-regular-expressions everywhere

The trick will be how the user can tell the system to use
a regexp vs a glob for a given entry box.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc