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ECB Sources- and history-interactor

ECB offers two interactors for displaying source-file-names: The sources- and the history-interactor. The former one displays all source-file names of the currently selected directory of the directories-interactor (see ECB Directories-buffer) whereas the latter one displays the names of all currently loaded source-files regardless in which directory they reside so it works as a "history" of source-files.

Both the sources- and the history-tree-buffer are "flat" tree-buffers means all nodes are direct children of the invisible root-node and can not be expanded.

Usage of the sources/history interactor

• Source files can be selected by clicking with the primary mouse button (see Using the mouse) or hitting RETURN (see Using the keyboard) on the source row in the ECB-Sources or ECB-History windows. The buffer of the selected source-file will be displayed in an edit-window - which one depends on the setting in ecb-mouse-click-destination.

  IMPORTANT: If you use the POWER-click (i.e. hold down the SHIFT-key while clicking with the primary mouse button (see Using the mouse) or RETURN (see Using the keyboard)) on a source row in the ECB-Sources or ECB-History windows then the source will not be displayed in an edit-window but it will be scanned in the background and all its contents (e.g. methods and variables) are listed in the ECB Methods window (see ECB Methods-buffer. So you can get an overlook over the source without changing the buffer in the edit-window.

• Clicking on the source file with the secondary mouse button or C-RETURN (see Usage of ECB) will open the source file in another edit window - which one depends on the setting in ecb-mouse-click-destination.
• Right clicking on a source file (mouse-button 3) will open a popup menu where different operation on the item under the mouse cursor can be performed. This popup-menu offers operations for version-control, dired, grep, filtering the file-names and some file-operations like deleting the related file from disk.

Activating/Displaying the sources/history interactor

Either use one of the predefined layouts which contain the sources (rsp. history) interactor (see Changing the ECB-layout) (e.g. via C-c . l c) or create a new ecb-layout via the command ecb-create-new-layout and add a buffer of type "sources" (rsp. "history") into this new layout (see Creating a new ECB-layout).

Customizing the sources/history interactor

See ecb-sources and ecb-history for a list of all options currently available for customizing these interactors to your needs.