It is currently very difficult navigating long scripts, using the Find feature can somewhat help but it’s only useful if you know exactly what you are looking for which isn’t helpful if you are looking for a function you totally forgot the name of, so you spend about 15 minutes looking for it in your functions section. This feature can help mitigate this issue.
“OverView” would be a window that gives the developer a birds eye view of the currently opened script. The window will display lines of code as rectangles with the in-fill color be based on studio preference. Comments will be a way to provide descriptive words as titles or descriptions in the OverView window enabling developers to quickly jump to blocks of code. Here is a quick mock-up i created to illustrate this feature:
The developer will also be able to zoom-in/zoom-out which will just shrink or expand the blocks of code while maintaining the size of the title/description so that they are still able to click and be taken to that specific section of the script and at the same time skip large blocks of code.
If the feature is added, it’ll give developers a way to quickly navigate to certain blocks of code using comments as well as a way to easily emphasize what a block of code does.
What do you guys think of this feature? Anything you would like to add/remove?
This is somewhat similar to the scrollbar minimap in Sublime text, and a topic about that exists already. However, I suggest a few additional features.