I published a paper comparing navigation time with a canvas-based editor (Code Bubbles) vs. traditional tab-based editor (Eclipe) vs. a carousel-based editor (Patchworks, a tool I designed).
We found the canvas provided too much freedom.
We found the canvas provided too much freedom.
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> Because users of Code Bubbles and Patchworks were able to open code at the granularity of methods, they had the advantage of never having to scroll through code to reach their navigation targets.
Have only read a bit of this paper but from this discussion over Eclipse it seem that the participants could be a lot more efficient if they used it more like an IDE than a multi-tab editor. Finding methods should be much less of an issue having an (alphabetically ordered) outline view.
only point here is to get used to deal with files on the horizontal, not vertically way of thinking, which is kind of rooted in the way we program first hello world.
Is the source-code for the Patchwork editor publically available?