Wish I would rather have bookmarks than edit history

Which would you rather have?

  • Edit History (yellow and green bar on left of editor)

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PhilipBrown

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I think one reason that bookmarks were removed in Version 5 was a column showing edit history was added to the left of the edit area and there is not room to have this as well as a bookmarks column.

Personally I do not attach any value to the edit history, but I find it very difficult to work without bookmarks.

So please can we have our bookmarks back?
 

qle

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+1
History navigation (Alt+n) helps a little, but would like bookmarks back as well.
 

JohnC

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Erel,

Is there any update on when you might be adding the "bookmarks" feature back into B4A?
 

JohnC

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Is there any update on adding a bookmark feature, or at least a hint why it is a difficult feature to add?

Even if the bookmarks weren't persistent between IDE sessions (like VB6), it would still be better then no bookmarks at all :)
 

Erel

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I will describe the currently available navigation related features:

1. Alt + Left / Alt + Right - Moves backwards and forwards based on the navigation stack. This is useful to jump back and forth between the last recent subs.

2. Alt + N - Opens the navigation stack menu. You can then choose the location with the up and down keys.

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3. If you are working on two locations in the same module then you can split the code editor (it can be split again vertically):

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4. If you are working with multiple modules:

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5. Ctrl + E - searches for sub or module. Very useful when working with large projects.

6. F7 - Find all references. Not exactly related to navigation but is also useful when working with large projects.

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7. Ctrl + Click on any sub or variable to jump to the declaration location.

8. Ctrl + F - Index based quick search. If you really miss the bookmark feature then you can easily implement a similar solution (actually better) with comments such as:
'b_1
'b_2

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Now you just need to press on Ctrl + F and enter b_ (if it is not already there).
 

MarcoRome

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Hi all. "Beginner's Guide" Edition 3.2 ( Last update: 2015.12.08 )
i see this:
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What mean ??
That Bookmark comeback on the new version or what ??
Thank you
Marco
 

stevel05

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If you haven't seen it I'm getting along fine with Erel's suggestion of using comments and the search function. Sorry I can't find the post to link to, but add lines like:
B4X:
'b_ Comment
and search(Ctrl + F) for "'b_" will list all of the 'b_ 's and comments, so you get a structure as well.
 

stevel05

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Oh, yes. I thought I saw it somewhere else as well. But well worth re-iterating.
 
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