Re: [Cscope-devel] Cscope major proposals for 16.0

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Petr Sorfa wrote:

> > instead.  OTOH, I find it hard to give any relevance to complaints of
> > people who don't even know how to read 'configure --help' or the INSTALL
> > document, and thus fail to run 'configure --with-lex' if that's what they
> > want.
> Sigh, folks aren't always clued up on how to use configure.

They don't exactly have to be --- but they definitely should read README
and INSTALL texts.  So, as long as the information in INSTALL is
sufficient to reliably get a working cscope, people who don't read are
safely on their own.

> > > 2) The switch between the line and command section will not be done with
> > > the <tab> key, too many users have complained about this to me
> > > (including colleagues.)
> > 
> > How else, then?
> Just a different key mapping. I'm suggesting something like <meta
> key><Tab>.

Meta is currently not used at all, yet. It can be cumbersome to support
Hardly any keyboard actually has <Meta> keys, so we'ld have to offer
configuration capabilities to choose what existing modifier (or other key)
is to be used for it.  Might open a larger can of worms than we asked for.
Something simpler, like <Esc> or whatever, would be preferrable IMHO.
 
-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.