[MonoDevelop] Feature request - Solution panel auto-navigation

Adam Connelly adam.rpconnelly at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 17:30:02 UTC 2012


Cheers - that's useful to know.

On 9 Aug 2012, at 07:21, Jay Bazuzi <jay at bazuzi.com> wrote:

If it helps, in MonoDevelop's Solution window, you can
RClick->DisplayOptions->CollapseAllNodes.

-J

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Adam Connelly <adam.rpconnelly at gmail.com>wrote:

> I would second this. It's something that really annoys me when I'm
> using monodevelop because I don't tend to navigate using the solution
> explorer.
>
> I normally prefer to keep the solution explorer at some point I'm
> currently looking at, then use ctrl-clicking on items or going to a
> type by typing it's name in, then closing the files when I'm done.
> Because of the way that monodevelop automatically navigates to the
> file, I find myself collapsing folders in the tree quite a lot.
>
> I'd prefer either eclipse's way where you can toggle the behaviour on
> or off, or a shortcut to show the current file in the solution
> explorer when I want to find it like resharper.
>
> On 8 Aug 2012, at 20:00, Michael Hutchinson <m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 22 July 2012 11:37, Nicholas Frechette <zeno490 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm not sure what is the proper channel for feature requests but here
> >> goes nothing:
> >> A very annoying behavior I always turn off in Visual Studio is the
> >> auto-navigation in the solution tree when the selected file changes.
> >> This needlessly expands things I would otherwise always keep collapsed
> >> and tends to clutter the solution panel.
> >> Sadly this is enabled by default in both Visual Studio and MonoDevelop.
> >
> > AFAIK the option was only there historically in VS for performance
> > reasons, and no other users have requested this, so I'd be reluctant
> > to add an option to MD for this. But feel free to file an enhancement
> > bug.
> >
> >> Would it be possible to add an option to disable this feature in
> >> monodevelop? I am fine with it being enabled by default (as it
> >> currently is) and would be quite content with just a way to disable
> >> this locally (which is currently not possible unless I am mistaken, in
> >> which case, please tell me!!).
> >>
> >> Alternatively, if someone can point me in a direction where to look, I
> >> would be happy to do this myself and submit a patch.
> >
> > I took a quick look and I couldn't figure it out, so I suspect it
> > would take some digging.
> >
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