Re: [Screem-devel] Some comments about the latest versions of Screem

[Roberto R. D. T. <ros...@li...>]

Hi all,
just updated to 0.11.4 on my main box and can't get rid of the initial
"Screem was unable to locate one of his file" error message. At first I
thought this might be due to the fact that I installed with --nodeps, as
I run Mandrake 10.0 (but updated GNOME to 2.6) and the libraries' names
are different than FC ones (grrr...), but then realized that it works
perfectly on my laptop, under the same conditions.

Using gdb I get a series of "(no debugging symbols found)" messages, the
program exits normally though.

Il ven, 2004-08-27 alle 15:57, David A Knight ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 09:00 +0200, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> 
> > - undo should be more precise: at the present moment you undo more than
> > one operation;
> 
> > - words selected via double clicking don't seem to be copied into the
> > clipboard;
> 
> These are more gtksourceview problems, although undo may not be as
> something goes wrong there sometimes that I've never seen happen in
> gedit.

I'd say the same for the double click selection, never failed to copy
text in the clipboard with gedit.

> > - if I open another document, it isn't opened as a tab in an existing
> > Screem window, but a new Screem window is opened which contains the same
> > tabs as the previous one!
> 
> presumably this is from nautilus choosing to open a file in screem?  I'm
> working on sorting this out now.

Nope, I also tried both via shell and clicking on a launcher in the
panel, it always re-opens the old "session". It would be nice if it
could work like gedit, opening a selected file in an existing instance
of the program or bringing the latter to front if the program is invoked
again without specifying a file name.

> > - find/replace sometimes doesn't work: using the keyboard shortcut or
> > clicking on the "Find" button seems to produce no effect, nothing
> > happens even if I know for sure that there are other instances of the
> > string I'm looking for;
> 
> there is no wrap around searching which may be the cause.  Searching is
> something that needs a big overhaul to actually be useful.

I know this is all too easy coming from a non-programmer like me :) but
couldn't you just lift the code from gedit? of course you would have to
add the "Search all" options.

[...]

> > - it would be nice to be able to select a span of text and then enclose
> > it within an element, selecting from a contextual menu of valid elements
> > (at the moment you can choose one, but nothing happens to the selected
> > text) or typing "<" (so to have a pop up list just as you do when typing
> > "<" in whatever unselected part of your text, only that when the text is
> > selected you'd get an opening tag at the beginning and a closing tag in
> > the end).
> 
> should be a simple addition, this is already possible selecting a tag
> from the current doctype tag tree, or the insert menu.  The only reason
> the valid elements one doesn't work is I've never got around to hooking
> that menu up properly.

The reason I ask is because thanks to automatic tag completion and
closing it is already possible to do a lot of work without raising hands
from the keyboard, this would also help (even if you had to select the
span of text using the mouse, you'd be right back to the keyboard).

About the "easy" shortcut (CTRL+ENTER or SHIFT+ENTER) for automatic tag
closing: while it's already quick enough on a US/UK keyboard, on an
italian one I have to first type "<", then SHIFT+7 to get a "/". A minor
inconvenience, but when you multiply it for hundreds of tags ... I'm
sure there are other keyboard layouts which suffer from the same
problem.

A couple of things I forgot in my original message:

- the automatic indent feature behaves strangely: spaces/tabs are forced
even when you just press enter from column 0;

- the CDATA pop-up after you selected an attribute is not very useful
and could be axed.

Ciao

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Roberto Rosselli Del Turco	roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it
Dipartimento di Scienze		rosselli at ling.unipi.it
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