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When jumping around the code with Alt-O (Go to source), I sometimes don't know where the file is in the explorer. I would like to have something like the 'show in explorer' button of the results of 'search filesystem'. Clicking on it should expand the filesystemtree and highlight the file that I am viewing in the editor.
Set target milestone to TBD
Created attachment 12248 [details] The simplest possible fix
Yarda just showed me his fix working, and it's doing exactly what is asked for, invoked by shortcut Ctrl+2 when you're in source editor. One hint for Jano - discoverability of such shortcut is a problem, solution would be to add this action into editor popup menu with title "Show in Filesystems" or "Select in Filesystems". Into editor document tab popup menu as well.
There is the UI specification covering this feature available at: http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/select_node_in_explorer/select_node_in_explorer.html As there can be more explorer windows which provide for access to files opened in editor (e.g. Filesystems, Projects, VCS Filesystems), this specification introduces a dialog that allows users to select in which of the available explorer windows the currently edited file should be highlighted. However, this dialog (displayed with each SelectDocumentNodeAction invocation) represents a considerable overhead in the situation when the Filesystems tab would be the user selected explorer window in majority of SelectDocumentNodeAction invocations. Therefore, I would prefer to modify the proposed UI and allow for direct access to the SelectIn...Tab actions (without a dialog). On the other hand, as Jano and Peter pointed out, ViewFilesystemsTabAction has been designed to simply move focus to the Filesystes explorer tab without changing any selection. Thus, its modification proposed by Yarda could represent an unacceptable change of user experience. Based on these facts, an alternate proposal could be: Leave ViewFilesystemsTabAction (Ctrl+2) for moving focus to the Filesystems explorer tab as it works now and introduce a new action - SelectInFilesystemsTabAction (Ctrl+Alt+2) which moves focus to the Filesystems explorer tab and selects the currently edited file in it. Similarly, leave ViewProjectsTabAction (Ctrl+3) for moving focus to the Projects explorer tab as it works now and introduce a new action - SelectInProjectsTabAction (Ctrl+Alt+3) which moves focus to the Filesystems explorer tab and selects the currently edited file in it. To improve discoverability of these actions create a menu item titled "Select Document Node >", collect all these SelectIn...TabActions in its pull-right, and add this item into various menus as proposed by Dafe.
I made the changes you proposed to the spec. http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/select_node_in_explorer/select_node_in_explorer.html When you implement the shortcuts, please file an issues and assign to me, as there will be some conflicts with debugger windows shortcuts. I would recommend a new shortcuts for debugger windows. Thanks.
Please be aware of other issues (#6559, #35652) dealing with the same problem.
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Implemented as described in the new UI Spec.
Excelent and useful work. God bless you Dusan.
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