In Delphi's editor (D7) there is a blue "back arrow" that lights up after you have clicked on an identifier and selected "Find declaration".
At this moment the focus jumps to the declaration of the identifier, which is what one wants. To go back is as simple as clicking on the arrow.
In Lazarus "Find declaration" function also exists. But then the problem arrives:
How to get back to where the jump originated? Unless one has set a bookmark on the line *before* the jump it is very hard to go back if the code is big.

In Lazarus I don't see the back arrow, so I wonder if there is an alternate way of doing the jump back?

Bo Berglund

Al 05/02/11 17:48, En/na Bo Berglund ha escrit:

In Lazarus I don't see the back arrow, so I wonder if there is an alternate way of doing the jump back?

CTRL+H

Bye

Ctrl-h, or any key you assign yourself to it.
If you got a 5 btn mouse the 4th, and 5th button also work (forward and backward)

Martin

Bo Berglund wrote

In Lazarus I don't see the back arrow, so I wonder if there is an alternate way of doing the jump back?

In the edit or search menu is the "back/forward history" via Ctrl+h. You can also install the "editor toolbar" add-on package (included with Lazarus). You can then add almost any menu option as toolbar buttons above the editor window. I have placed the back/forward buttons there in my setup. The editor toolbar also has other jump to certain parts in a code unit feature.

Interesting,
on this note I have another usability question:
The right-click menu item says "Find declaration" and it invariably brings me to the class declaration for the item selected. But I usually need to examine the code so I *always* have to follow this with a Ctrl-Shift-DownArrow to get me to the implementation of the code.
Is there a quicker way to "Find Implementation"???

Bo Berglund

I agree:
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13245

I have now installed the "editor toolbar" and I am looking for a way to add the Ctrl-Shift-Down action to a *button* in the edit window. But I can't find a way to add a key combination of my choosing, only already existing menu commands...

Is it possible to add a key combination and if so how is it done?

Bo Berglund

Op 2011-02-07 10:45, Bo Berglund het geskryf:

No, I designed it to only use existing IDE menu items to be placed on the editor toolbar.

I lately find myself using the editor toolbar only for the "jump to sections inside the current unit" navigation - for everything else, I use keyboard shortcuts. After all, my hands are mostly over the keyboard already ? no need to reach for the mouse.

Regards,
- Graeme -