Provide forward/backward navigation

[chansey97]

In VisualStudio/IntelliJ IDEA/Eclipse, we have navigation buttons in toolbar, it's very convenience when browsing code. (Navigate Backward/Navigate Forward)
I think it is necessary to add this feature.
operating system: windows7
IDE version: 1.30
Thanks.

[pkulchenko]

Do you have an screenshot/description of this feature?

[chansey97]

@pkulchenko I captured a screenshot. You can this two buttons to navigate code.

[pkulchenko]

So, that would jump between cursor locations you visited? I'm not familiar with this feature...

[chansey97]

Yes, it's very convenience when browsing code.

[pkulchenko]

It's still unclear to me how you use this navigation. Could you provide a scenario?

[chansey97]

This feature is important when you reading other people's code.
For example:
There are 3 modules(A B and C) in your project. .
The programm's main flow is "module A call module B, module B call module C".
When you reading this code, you may read the function in module A first, then read the function in module B and C. After fininsh reading the function in module C, you can press Navigate Backward to module A. (back to main flow again)

[halfnelson]

Also good for navigation within the same file, I can right click on a function call and "Goto Definition", then read the definition of the function, then hit the back button to go back to the function call that I navigated from

[pkulchenko]

@halfnelson, I agree; in fact we've already discussed it in the past. The trouble is to figure out what to add to the queue and how to navigate it.

Go to Definition is covered: you can use Alt-Left to jump to a previous location. I should probably add a message to the status bar that you can jump back. This only works after couple of shortcuts and can probably be extended to cover more cases.