[Cuis-dev] How would you like cmd+y to behave?

Juan Vuletich juan at cuis.st
Wed Mar 19 06:49:53 PDT 2025


Hi Hernán,

On 3/18/2025 7:14 PM, Hernán Wilkinson via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi, this is a survey, please answer :-)
>
> If you press cmd+y when editing a test method, it saves it (if 
> necessary), runs the tests and if passes, runs all the tests in the 
> system category.
> When the system category hierarchy was introduced, this behavior was 
> not changed but programmers sometimes expect cmd+y to run tests of all 
> the system category "family" (that is its root and all children 
> categories), but sometimes they expect the current behavior.
> I think that the best solution would be to add a new menu option such 
> as "Save & Run Test in Category Family (Y)" so we have all options 
> covered. I think I would add the same option to the system category 
> menu, but I'd like to know what you think, therefore the survey:
>
> 1) Add  "Save & Run Tests in Category Family (Y)" as a menu option to 
> the Smalltalk Editor and add "Run Test sin Category Family (Y)" as a 
> menu option to the System Category Menu.
> 2) Change the current behavior of cmd+y and run all tests of the 
> category family and add "Run Test in Category Family (y)" as a menu 
> option to the System Category Menu.
> 3) Do nothing, if you want to run all tests of the system category 
> family go to the root category and press cmd+t
> 4) Other!
>
> Which one do you prefer?
>
> Cheers!
> Hernan
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I prefer 1). I don't think there's need for another menu item. I'd call 
it "Category Tree", not "Category Family".

Additionally, if someone prefers the current behavior, we could add a 
preference.

Cheers,

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