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  1. Qt Creator
  2. QTCREATORBUG-12845

Three pop-up menu items

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      Please help make Creator friendlier with us "mouse junkies" with the following three pop-up menu items:

      1) Switch header/source in the file selector pop-up menu at the top of the editor window.
      Rationale: Creator already has this pop-up menu item in the editor window's pop-up menu, but once you right-click in the editor window to switch header/source the cursor position in the window is changed to the position of the pointer at the moment one clicks the mouse button; instead, by placing it in the file selector's pop-up menu one could switch header/source without affecting the cursor position in the editor.

      2) Find/Replace... in the editor pop-up menu.
      Rationale: Creator already has "Find usages" in this pop-up menu (which is extremely convenient), and "Find/Replace..." will only complement this feature in a place where people would expect it. Additionally, Creator has this nice feature that it highlights all the occurrences of a Searched item, and having "Find..." as a right-click option would provide a convenient way for a quick visual highlighting of an item inside the code.

      3) Find... in the sidebar navigators' pop-up menus (project explorer, class view, etc).
      Rationale: this feature will not even be noticed be many users unless it's explicitly listed in the pop-up menu

      I know that these context menu items that i'm suggesting here already have a shortcut key assigned to them, so this suggestion won't make any difference in terms of usability for people who are keyboard shortcuts power users, but please consider that these context menu items will make a world of difference for people who'd rather use the mouse for as many of the tasks they're frequently doing as possible.

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