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On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 11:04:03 AM UTC+1 Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> On 19/03/2022 22:41, 'Neil Hodgson' via scite-interest wrote:
> > chris.d:
> >
> >> Maybe it is worth while to remove 1 or maybe more of these
> >> languages? Personally I would say, leave 'ada' or 'tcl' out, but
> >> that's my opinion.
> >
> > More people may be interested in responding to a lower-commitment
> > process like a survey.
> >
> > Neil
> >
>
> Hi Neil,
>
> I'd like to suggest an enhancement, instead.
>
> I usually use SciTE for a dozen different file formats, and the standard
> language menu length would be OK.
>
> However, from time to time, I have to open some other file type and
> having to switch on its parsing manually is a hassle.
> Therefore I ended up with a huge language menu.
>
> I would suggest to change SciTE interface to allow submenus in the
> language menu, so that often-used languages can stay in the main menu
> and lesser-used ones could go in one or more submenus.
>
> This could be implemented using some extra config keys, for example like
> this:
>
> menu.language.submenu1.name=<submenu #1 name>
> menu.language.submenu1=<submenu #1 definition>
> ...
> menu.language.submenu9.name=<submenu name>
> menu.language.submenu9=<submenu #9 definition>
>
>
> Defining up to 9 submenus should suffice for any reasonable use (I can
> think of people having 3 or 4 submenus for alphabetic ordering of all
> languages and the other used for some other classification - BTW,
> duplicated entries should be allowed).
>
> If a submenuN.name key is not defined, the UI should not create the
> corresponding submenu, to reduce clutter and so that by not defining any
> submenuN.name keys you could have the current "unified" menu layout.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lorenzo
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