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Alpha:
The main context menu (from right-clicking in the editor) is huge.  I plan to try reorganizing it to be more manageable/efficient.

If people could post which menu entries they use the most, and which (if any) they rarely/never use, it would be helpful to my reorganization.

ollydbg:
I mostly use:
Context menu:
Edit->Copy
Edit->Paste
Find declaration of xxx
Find implementation of xxx
Find occurrence of xxx

I nearly do not use other items.

"Run to cursor" should not exist when the debugger is not running, right?

p2rkw:
I don't use: toggle breakpoint, swap header/source, open containing folder, Edit, Folding, split view, configure editor, remove from project, show file in project tree.
Most of context menu items are related to current file. My suggestion is to move these items ( if they aren't already there ) to tabs context menu.

ollydbg:

--- Quote from: p2rkw on September 01, 2012, 04:14:01 pm ---I don't use: toggle breakpoint, swap header/source, open containing folder, Edit, Folding, split view, configure editor, remove from project, show file in project tree.
Most of context menu items are related to current file. My suggestion is to move these items ( if they aren't already there ) to tabs context menu.

--- End quote ---
Agree.
Some of the menu item like "swap header/source, open containing folder" were also shown in the editor tab context menu, I use them sometimes, but I think they should only be in tab context menu.

oBFusCATed:
The last and only try I had at discussing this failed miserably and the poll was an internal one.
Everybody uses a subset of this menu and doesn't like items removed from it.

This is what I've written back then:

--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on June 18, 2011, 03:34:25 am ---I've some targets, which I think should be removed:
1. Configure editor (never used this one and never would)
2. Remove file from project
3. Show file in project tree
4. Swap header/source
5. Open containing folder
6. Properties

(2-6 can be found in the context menu for the notebook).
I think this group of items should be removed 100%.

For the next group I have some doubts (50:50% here):
1. Split view (I think this should stay, because many people can't find this feature)
2. Bookmarks
3. Folding

--- End quote ---

The answer to this post was pretty negative.
So, I think the best option is to provide an UI for hiding certain item. By name or by regexpr.
So the users sees an menu item he/she doesn't like. Goes to the settings and hides it.
All other option will make us suffer and we would have to answer questions like:
"Why have you removed XXX, I use it and like it and I want it back, else I switch IDEs?".


--- Quote from: ollydbg on September 01, 2012, 02:47:18 pm ---"Run to cursor" should not exist when the debugger is not running, right?

--- End quote ---
Why not? Have you tried it to see what it does in this situation :)

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