On 9/6/19 7:31 AM, David Teller wrote:
For what it's worth, I recently spent half a day attempting to solve a
bug which would have been trivial if `a` and `m` prefixes had been
present in that part of the code.
While I find these notations ugly, they're also useful.
Is this something searchfox could have helped with by annotating the
symbol names via background-color, iconic badge, or other means? Simon
and I have been discussing an optional emacs glasses-mode style of
operation which so far would allow for:
- expansion of "auto" to the actual underlying inferred type. "auto"
would still be shown, and the expanded type would be shown in a way that
indicates it's synthetic like being placed in parentheses and rendered
in italics.
- inlining of constants.
Searchfox does already highlight all instance of a symbol when it's
hovered over, or optionally made sticky from the menu (thanks, :kats!),
but more could certainly be done here. The question is frequently how
to provide the extra information without making the interface too busy.
But of course, if this was all being done from inside an editor or a
debugger, no matter what tricks searchfox can do, they can't help you
elsewhere.
Andrew
_______________________________________________
dev-platform mailing list
dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
