UseCase

• Remove unused function.
• Quick previewing
• Direct edit multiple line
• Navigate to point of interest
• As minimap-like
• As TODO list
• As TOC( table-of-content )

Remove unused function.

Quick previewing

Provider: search, scan, symbols

1. Start narrow:scan and input query.
2. Auto preview first matching line.
3. Closing narrow-editor recover original cursor position/screen-top/fold.

Direct edit multiple line

Provider: scan, search, atom-scan

1. Start narrow:scan and input query.
2. Move to item area, and edit-it.
3. Invoke narrow-ui:update-real-file from command palette or from keymap.
4. Changes you made is applied to real file.

Navigate to point of interest

1. Open narrow:fold, narrow:search
2. Confirm first matching item, now focus is on original-pane.
3. next-item, previous-item guide cursor to next/previous point of interest.
4. As you move to next/previous-item, or any cursor movement/pane-item change reflect current-selected-item indicator on narrow-editor, this will give user "where am I info".

• Keep track of current position within items is really important.
• next-item then move cursor to different position by mouse-clicking/or via normal-atom-command then next-item SHOULD move to next-item which is relative to CURRENT cursor position.
• Unless auto-tracking, next-item can be move-BACK cursor, this is not what user expect. narrow-editor must aware of position/buffer change of bound-editor.

As minimap-like

1. Open narrow:fold or narrow:symbols
2. Move this narrow-editor to rightmost or leftmost position in workspace, so that you can see it in comfortable place.
3. Each time you focused to different file, symbols(or fold) items are updated.
4. For fold, you can change fold level by cmd-[, cmd-] in narrow-editor to control granularity level of information.
5. Yes you can use this as minimap which clickable and shows only important information only.
6. Further, you can narrow the focus by query.

• e.g. in file which file contains multiple classes and some of it have initialize overriding,
• In this case, narrowing by initialize query, show only initialize functions in the items.

As TODO list

1. Place cursor the [TODO] or [FIXME] keyword, then open narrow:search-by-current-word.
2. Confirm first matching item, now focus is on original-pane.
3. next-item, previous-item guide cursor to next/previous point of interest.
4. After you fixed it and removed [FIXME] or [TODO] keyword and saved. items are auto-refreshed.
5. So remaining items in narrow-editor is [TODO]s you have to done.
6. When you done all the [TODO]s or [FIXME]s narrow-editor would have no items in the list. DONE.

As this way, you can use this approach when you

• Rename variable names in project
• Changing argument for particular function(e.g from string argument to object).
• Removing deprecated code(after spending enough migration period and now it's time to delete!).

You can concentrate updating code and save then move to next by next-item(ctrl-cmd-n or tab for vim-mode-plus user).

As TOC( table-of-content )

Of course, clickable, narrowable.

1. Open narrow:symbols, narrow:search, narrow:fold, narrow item by query if necessary.
2. Click item listed cause auto-preview.

In this scenario, narrow is like minimap which gives overview of code with readable text(in minimap it's gives pictorial overview but text is not readable)