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Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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I really like the way it lets you navigate from function to function (and file to file) and back again. What would be even more useful would be to have a "history" window, similar to your browser's history, that would show the list of files/functions as I'm navigating from one to the other. This would allow me to step forwards or backwards, or even jump to anywhere in my navigation history, without having to slog thr…

This is a great idea! Will think about how to best implement this.

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

#102

This is amazing! I would love the ability to connect a line from one code snippet to other.

Oh interesting! Do you mean manually draw a line on the canvas? Would you expect this to persist through sessions?

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

#103
post #62

Congrats on the release. This looks like an excellent, well implemented in tool. I look forward to trying it out. It reminds me of a feature I've always wanted, and even built manually a couple times, but never in a shareable way, which is to unravel a code path into a single script or source file. I've want to be able to set something like a breakpoint and hit an "unravel" button and be left with a single file that…

Why? What problem are you trying to resolve? What outcome do you want?

I find that when folks focus on specific implantation details instead of sharing requirements / parameters / outcomes that much gets lost in translation.

Why do you want this implementation? What function / purpose would it serve?

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

#104

Okay! first thing first, this is super cool. Kudos to the whole team. I did some fiddling around and found it usable and I think I can get used to it. However, there are a couple of things that it can improve on. And I have listed a few here. 1. Allow zoom ins and zoom outs in the canvas. It is super hard to navigate through the files otherwise. One way I can see this working is I would make a file graph view which c…

You can zoom on the canvas using CMD+scroll! Other folks have mentioned this as hard to discover so we'll be sure to fix that.

2 and 3 sound like interesting ideas that we'll definitely mull over.

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

#106
post #100

I really like the way it lets you navigate from function to function (and file to file) and back again. What would be even more useful would be to have a "history" window, similar to your browser's history, that would show the list of files/functions as I'm navigating from one to the other. This would allow me to step forwards or backwards, or even jump to anywhere in my navigation history, without having to slog thr…

This is a great idea! Will think about how to best implement this.

look at emacs undo buffer, it would be awesome to avoid losing the future if you step into the past.
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