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Open source text editor: Syntaxic
https://syntaxiceditor.com
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Improved settings flow #21

Open nblackburn opened 9 years ago

nblackburn commented 9 years ago

It would be nice if the settings window was organised into categories allowing for a better workflow and quicker access to commonly used settings.

msipos commented 9 years ago

I agree that it would be nice, but I find that it would be a lot of work. I'd prefer to put this work in on adding features. I've been planning to put in a lot of preferences, as I am aware that programmers generally love to customize their workflow.

Perhaps a middle ground can be reached, where we can have some headers in the preferences dialog, and a list of most important settings up top?

nblackburn commented 9 years ago

It's not bad the way it is but the names would benefit being less programmatic and more human with perhaps a fuzzy search.

Alternative: You could take a leaf out of Sublimes book and turn it into a commented json file. Personally i love that about it but i am a geek at heart and get excited by terminals so you shouldn't trust me.

msipos commented 9 years ago

Actually, it used to be a JSON file. I thought this GUI is a little better than a commented JSON file.

But you are absolutely right. Will make the names more human, and add a fuzzy search by version 1.0