[Cuis-dev] Quick print & quick implementors

[Gerald Klix]

On 12/2/21 8:46 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> On 12/1/2021 5:06 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
Interesting idea, could be done automatically ...
> 
> Generally I use doIt. You all know that doIt prints the result to 
> Transcript, right?
Yep, that feature I never liked. I can faintly remember that we
had a discussion about that topic. Now I understand why you like it
so much.

OTH, did I get you right? You don't care that much about "print it"?


Best Regards,

Gerald