[Lazarus] Cool IDE add-on idea

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sat Apr 14 19:02:46 CEST 2018



On Sat, 14 Apr 2018, R0b0t1 via Lazarus wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just discover this add-on for Eclipse. Every time you use the mouse to
>> do something, it pops up (without interrupting your workflow) and lists
>> the keyboard shortcut you could have used to accomplish that same task
>> you just did with the mouse.
>>
>> That's an excellent way to learn shortcuts - which ultimately should
>> make you work faster (at least that is normally true for developers).
>>
>> I wouldn't even know where to start with such a add-on for Lazarus IDE,
>> but I just thought I would mention it - in case somebody wants to take
>> up the challenge.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Graeme
>
> I would be extremely thankful if anyone had the time to at least start
> on this. One of my main complains with Lazarus/FPC is that it is IDE
> centric. The IDE is not that bad, but it is kind of hard to integrate
> into my normal desktop (a tiling window manager).

Would you mind explaining what you mean with IDE centric ?

You can code in notepad++ or "joe" - something which I still
do frequently for small things ?

Michael.


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