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SlickEdit Product Discussion => SlickEdit® => Features and/or Improvements => Topic started by: jporkkahtc on May 03, 2018, 09:38:35 PM

Title: Copy bookmarks as links
Post by: jporkkahtc on May 03, 2018, 09:38:35 PM

When investigating code I like to take notes.
I have to manually copy references like:

• pathname of source file.
• Class
• Function
• Some relevant context text

I'd like a command in Slick to copy a HTML formatted link to the clipboard.
Then I could paste that link into something like Onenote, Word, email, etc.
When I click on the link it would activate Slickedit, goto that source file and location.

For example, when I manually create a link in Onenote, then copy it, the interesting bit that ends up on the clipboard:

Code: [Select]

<a href="file:///c:/foo/bar/blat.c">My Example Link</a>
That would be OK, better would include more:

Code: [Select]

<a href="file:///c:/foo/bar/blat.c?line=50&col=14">My Example Link</a>
of course, instead of "My Example Link" for the text, it should be something useful like

Code: [Select]

<a href="file:///c:/foo/bar/blat.c?line=50&col=14">class Thingy, function Thingy::doit( ... )</a>


I should be able to copy such a link from:

• The current cursor location.
• The current selection (and navigating with this link would recreate the selection).
• a bookmark.
• a break point.
• the entire bookmark stack!
• the contents of the left pane of "References"
• Search Results.

Ideally, instead of a simple line=#,col=#, Slick could include the context information that it normally includes with bookmarks and breakpoints - so that if the file changes a little the location could be corrected.

Title: Re: Copy bookmarks as links
Post by: Graeme on May 05, 2018, 10:15:21 PM

Your comment motivated me to try code annotations.  I've never tried them before because people who don't have slickedit can't see them but I also need to take notes sometimes and annotations could be really useful.  I think I would need "print to html" before committing to this.  I know you mentioned a while ago there were some bugs with annotations - I wonder if any are show stoppers. 

I also love and use OneNote a lot but its searching seems a bit unreliable and if you copy source code from a note, there's a problem with line endings or something.  I think I will test annotations a bit more and see how reliable they are.

Title: Re: Copy bookmarks as links
Post by: Dennis on May 08, 2018, 02:14:57 PM

This is a good idea, Joe.  I'm going to file a feature request for it, but no guarantees that we can work it into the next release.