[Cuis-dev] Quick print & quick implementors

[Juan Vuletich]

On 12/1/2021 5:06 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
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>>> Actually -- Cuis then becoming more Pharo like -- I suggest
>>> to bind the "print to hover help@ to Ctrl-P and
>>> the old "print to insert" to Shift-Ctrl-P,
>>> but I don't know whether this too drastic a change.
>>> If the community is undecided in this point, we can do
>>> what we always do in such a case: We should add a preference.
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>> hmm not sure about that change... do you think is it more usable with 
>> the
>> hover help? I think we have to let time pass and see how everybody feels
>> about this and if everybody see it as a better way to do it we can 
>> change
>> the shortcuts
> I can't remember one case, even in 1986/7 when I used Smalltalk/V,
> that I did not delete the result of print-it.
> OK maybe sometimes, I pressed Ctrl-x.
> If you use it in the debugger, you always get nasty
> questions about modified code.
> IHMO: This change would make life much easier;
> sometimes even the Pharo guys get something right :}
> (Sorry could not resist)

I don't use printIt much. Sometimes to document the result of some 
expression, I printIt and then enclose the result in double quotes, to 
turn it into a comment.

Generally I use doIt. You all know that doIt prints the result to 
Transcript, right?

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Cheers,

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