From: "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick.Bennett@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T00:12:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zdennis [mailto:zdennis@mktec.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:12 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE
> 
> This isn't a ArachnoRuby thing persay, but it applies to any 
> up and coming ruby IDE.... how would you as the user expect 
> the IDE to take you to a class definition, if the class 
> itself is defined/opened in multiple files?

I never said it would be easy.  ;)
SlickEdit pops a dialog where you can pick the appropriate instance if
there are multiple matches.
In C++, definition vs. implementation for e.g.

In the case of Ruby, if there was only one class XXX reference, it
should simply jump there.
If the class was re-opened and referenced multiple times, it could just
show the different locations where it was referenced and let you choose.

Patrick Bennett