Topic: Exiting a buffer (1 of 7), Read 21 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Walt Pattinson
Date: Friday, May 27, 2005 01:59 PM

Just a curiosity question --

When editing multiple buffers, if I exit a buffer VEdit performs a "Prev Buffer" instead of a "Next Buffer". I was wondering if there was a reason (decision) for this behavior or it just worked out that way in the coding.

Walt

 


Topic: Re: Exiting a buffer (2 of 7), Read 17 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Ted Green
Date: Friday, May 27, 2005 04:05 PM

At 01:59 PM 5/27/2005, you wrote:
>Just a curiosity question --
>
>When editing multiple buffers, if I exit a buffer VEdit performs a "Prev Buffer" instead of a "Next Buffer". I was wondering if there was a reason (decision) for this behavior or it just worked out that way in the coding.

Walt:

It was changed this way by suggestion, and it makes sense to me.
If you are editing file A, then edit file B, then open and close
file C, it makes more sense to go to file B, which is the last
one you were editing.

Ted.

 


Topic: Re: Exiting a buffer (3 of 7), Read 20 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Monday, May 30, 2005 07:27 AM

On 5/27/2005 4:05:51 PM, Ted Green wrote:
>
>If you are editing file A,
>then edit file B, then open
>and close
>file C, it makes more sense to
>go to file B, which is the
>last one you were editing.

Yes, it may be slightly higher probability that B was the last one you were editing, but not much higher.

It would be much better if Vedit would actually remember which file I was last editing. Or, better still, keep a full MRU list and have "Back" and "Forward" buttons, as in web browsers.

This would be useful for example when you need to repeatedly switch between two files.

Talking about web browsers, Netscape works like Vedit: when you close one tab, the previous one (to the left) is displayed. I don't like that at all. Opera on the other hand works as expected, it displays the most recently viewed tab.

--
Pauli

 


Topic: Re: Exiting a buffer (5 of 7), Read 18 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Walt Pattinson
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:52 PM

On 5/30/2005 7:27:20 AM, Pauli Lindgren wrote:
>Talking about web browsers, Netscape
>works like Vedit: when you close one
>tab, the previous one (to the left) is
>displayed. I don't like that at all.
>Opera on the other hand works as
>expected, it displays the most recently
>viewed tab.
>
>--
>Pauli

Firefox moves to the right when closing. I find that operation extremely useful. I'd rather not have it close in visit order as my tabs generally are a subset of the first tab which I don't want closed.

 


Topic: Re: Exiting a buffer (7 of 7), Read 18 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Ted Green
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 06:00 PM

At 07:27 AM 5/30/2005, you wrote:
>It would be much better if Vedit would actually remember which file I was last editing. Or, better still, keep a full MRU list and have "Back" and "Forward" buttons, as in web browsers.

I will add that to the suggestion list, as it is very reasonable.

Ted.

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Topic: Re: Exiting a buffer (4 of 7), Read 17 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Walt Pattinson
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:46 PM

On 5/27/2005 4:05:51 PM, Ted Green wrote:
>
>It was changed this way by
>suggestion, and it makes sense
>to me.
>If you are editing file A,
>then edit file B, then open
>and close
>file C, it makes more sense to
>go to file B, which is the
>last
>one you were editing.
>
>Ted.

Yes it does *if* I was editing B previously. In my case I opened 5 files, edited 1st, closed... I'm now on the last file.

Not asking for a change, I was just curious.

 


Topic: Re: Exiting a buffer (6 of 7), Read 16 times
Conf: Other, General, etc.
From: Ted Green
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 05:57 PM

At 12:46 PM 5/31/2005, you wrote:
>Yes it does *if* I was editing B previously. In my case I opened 5 files, edited 1st, closed... I'm now on the last file.
>Not asking for a change, I was just curious.

Yes, that is true; it does not distinguish between you manually opening
the file one-by-one and opening all at once.

Ted.