Sidebar ^v button and (alt g) scrolling improvements

Yellen

The current text jumping methods of legend seem to be mainly divided into two types.
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The first type of jumping is very pleasant. Its main triggering methods are four (alt j); (ctrl f); (click the text to place the cursor and then ctrl alt ); click the pop-up window on the right side of the backlink to jump;
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Their feature is very fast. My documents are already huge, when I used workflowy, its size had to load 10s every time I opened workflowy. Now it’s even bigger and more than 5 times larger than the content in wfy days. And All the content is in one document (so use can take full advantage of the selection search function). Even so huge. The first type of jump can still achieve instant jump to where I want to see. When I used it for the first time, I felt I am amazed that web notes can have such performance. Its smoothness makes me use these functions very frequently and accustomed to.
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The first type of jump seems to have some features. For example (alt j) enter after searching the content. By default, after jumping to the corresponding content at the home level, it will place the cursor at the end of the jumped text. This feature is very convenient. It can Let me jump to the content and edit it directly without having to repeatedly click and place the cursor with the mouse.
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Speaking of placing the cursor, this reminds me of another feature of legend. When you move the cursor, the field of view will immediately focus on the cursor. This is also a very useful feature. For example, when you click on a node in the sidebar, it will zoom in by default. This node. When zooming in on a node, you can only view the content of this node and its child nodes, and you cannot view the content at the same level as it. You can only view nodes at the same level after zooming out (alt <-). But there is a problem ( alt <-) it will focus the field of view to the top layer of the previous node by default. You want to jump to the position where you just zoomed in and read. You just need to move your cursor with the arrow keys and the field of view will immediately focus to the position where the cursor is . Even if the top layer of the home page is 3w nodes away from the cursor I placed, the field of vision is still instantaneous and the jump is extremely smooth, just like the first type of jump.
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The first type of jump always places the cursor, which reminds me of the cursor focus feature of legend. I am wondering that the code implementation of the first type of jump is to first place the cursor on the target text to be jumped, and then use the lower-level feature of the focused text. Does it realize the jump? No matter how the first type of jump is realized, its extremely excellent code implementation gives me an extraordinary experience
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There is also a second type of jump in legend. I only found two places to use this jump method. One is the ^v button in the sidebar. Clicking this button legend will scroll from the top of the home page to the corresponding Location. If the text I’m looking at is long and multi-chapter. Or I’m looking at a multi-chapter novel, this feature is logically the most suitable because the sidebar is easy to locate what you’re looking at. Also click ^v it jumps to the home level by default it doesn’t zoom in on the node so you can still view the chapters at the same level as it. But I almost never use this feature. In fact, it’s really not very useful.
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I clicked on the home page to jump to a far-flung novel content. It may be the reason why my document is too large. It took me 13s to click on it to jump to the corresponding position. The unpleasant memory of opening workflowy and waiting for 10s. The more uncomfortable thing is that it often stops scrolling when it is halfway through, and how much do I need to click it to smoothly scroll to the position I clicked. Sometimes my computer lags when opening a lot of things . This kind of jump needs to scroll while loading the page. I clicked it 5 times to complete the jump. This experience is really frustrating. Now I want to achieve this requirement. I always click directly on the zoom node and then (alt <-) Zoom out the node and then move the cursor to focus the cursor to achieve the function of jumping content in the sidebar. Although this operation has many steps. Repeated use will be more troublesome, but it only takes 1s-2s and I always click the ^v button. It takes about 10s. If I use this function, I’m forced to consider whether I need to waste 10s waiting for this thing before every click.
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There is another kind of jump that also uses the second type of jump. That is (alt g) Speaking of this, I want to share my legend usage process and the pane layout of legend daily use. I usually open two panes in my daily use. In the past The pane on the left is used to browse the reading content. On the pane on the right, I will zoom in on a node dedicated to taking notes and use it to take notes. But now I have made a slight change. Now the pane on the right no longer needs the function of taking notes. It only You need to complete the search and find function. When using the pane on the left to read long texts, I am always reluctant to use the label next to the text to filter to find relevant content or directly (alt f) to find relevant content. Because every time (alt f) The view always focuses on the top of the home page. I need to scroll the scroll wheel or use the first type of jump to jump to the previous position. After many repetitions, you will feel so troublesome that the left I just want to read and browse the pane, and I don’t want to use the extremely efficient text filtering and searching function of legend. Later, I used the pane on the right to use the searching function. Compared with the past, I now use the filtering function very frequently during the reading process. to find the content. Now I use the (alt n) function to take notes. If it is a note that is very closely related to the reading content, I will directly record it on the child node of the original text. But there are many notes that are only related but not Completely important content I don’t want to record directly in the original text to pollute the original text. I will directly use (alt n) to record efficiently. I only need to record what I think of and then directly (alt n) record and enter. The notes will be placed directly in the home. The top position. Afterwards, I use legend’s various powerful functions to organize notes and then organize notes. I don’t need to think about where my notes should be placed when recording, and whether it will be confusing, just rest assured (alt n) record and then enter. And (alt n) recording will not affect the current state of the left and right panes at all. Very comfortable.
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After using this method, I really want to use the (alt g) function. I may place many tags in a document. I am not sure whether each tag can search for valuable content. And each Searching all tags, it will be troublesome to search very frequently. The ideal solution is to place the tag (alt g) when the left pane is reading, and then the right pane will jump to the corresponding position instantly and then I just need to simply click the tag I can search for relevant content, which is very convenient. Even if an article has a lot of tags, I can rely on (alt g) and simple clicks to achieve efficient search without interrupting the original reading. But unfortunately the situation Not ideal. The jump used by (alt g) is not the first type of jump. It uses the second type of jump. Every time I use it, I have to repeatedly click ^v and scroll for 10s before scrolling to the corresponding position. A terrible experience. This experience is not as fast as I manually enter the tags in the search box manually.
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Maybe the second type of jump uses relatively early code? The first type of jump is the code that was perfected later? From the experience, the first type of jump is really much better than the second type. Instant jump and 10s The gap between the left and right jumps. It is a more advanced design. Maybe the code for the first type of jumps can be reused on the only two remaining functions that use the second type of jumps, which should be used frequently. Great functionality, but the implementation of second-class jumps hinders their usefulness.

Yellen

At the same time, using this feature can realize some functions commonly used in emacs. Maybe many people have used emacs. Use text search on emacs, in the search box, it will search all the fragments of the content in your document that are related to the keywords you entered .For example, if you enter #tag in the search box, all lines of text with #tag will be displayed in the search list. You can easily preview the content and then you can directly use the up and down arrow keys to move the cursor, and the text area will automatically jump to The corresponding content selected by the cursor in the search box.
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This is a bit like the combined version of legend’s (alt j) and (ctrl f) functions. The difference between it and (alt j) is that (alt j) selects the content you are searching for and clicks enter, the search box disappears, and then jumps to the text . And the search of emacs will not close the search box. Where the search box is always, you move the cursor up and down, it will just keep jumping the text area to the corresponding content. The legend (ctrl f) clicks enter or shift enter every time it can be similar Emacs keeps jumping content without closing the search box. But unlike eamcs, it lacks the (alt j) and emacs preview text functions. For example, the content you searched exists in 90 places (1/90 ) You can only press enter repeatedly until you find it. Even if you know what you’re looking for at (31/90), you have to mechanically press enter 30 times from 1 to jump to where you want to read Context. And emacs can directly preview all content in the search box. When you see the content you want to be in (31/90) and (54/90), then you can easily click (31/90) to jump to the corresponding Position reading while the search box is not closed, then continue to click (54/90) to continue reading.
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Using dual panes and (alt g) in legend can easily simulate the search scheme of emacs.
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I take the pane on the left as the reading area. Equivalent to the text area of emacs. The pane on the right is equivalent to the search area of eamcs.
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Use filter search in the right pane. For example, if you search for #tag, the right pane will display all nodes containing #tag tags. The rendering effect is the same as the search box of emacs. You can easily preview until you want to jump The place.emacs is where you want to jump when you click in the search box.legend is on the right pane, click the cursor and press (alt g) it will jump like eamcs. At the same time, eamcs will not close the search box and you can continue to jump Turn. The right pane of the legend is saved there. You can continue to use (alt g) on the right pane to let the left pane continue to jump. This is convenient for previewing and jumping to the original text.Kind of like a combination of (alt f) and (ctrl f) functions.
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For more comprehensive information, you need to jump to the reading position to read the context
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But the premise of all this is that (alt g) change the jump mode to change the originally used second type of jump to the high-performance first type of jump. Otherwise, every time you use (alt g), you need to wait a long time. Will be very discouraged to use this feature, even though it is very convenient but it requires a long wait

Yellen

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For a long time I was using (alt j) search for jumps and took it for granted. Until then I accidentally triggered (alt g), (alt g) absolute while opening dual panes It’s a genius design. Double pane and (alt f) with (alt g) can perfectly achieve precise jumps in any position, and only one shortcut key (alt g) can perfectly replace the sidebar, (alt j), ( ctrl f) these functions and do better than them.

When I first used legend, I also used double panes. One was mainly used to view text, and the other was used to find content as an auxiliary pane. I used the auxiliary pane (alt f) to find what I needed. Then in the main pane (alt j) Manually enter the relevant content and jump directly to the original text to view a more detailed context. Later, I found some plug-ins that I can directly copy the content with the mouse and then paste the jump in the main pane (alt j). This is much more convenient than manual input. But frequent and multiple jumps will still be very troublesome. It was not until later that the function of (alt g) was found to understand what is the optimal solution. (alt g) directly saves this bunch of tedious steps. See you Want to see something? Direct (alt g) jumps. Efficient, fast, intuitive and easy to use.

But (alt g) has a very impactful operation (he uses the second type of jump) as you can see from the video, I just look up some content and then use (alt g) to jump it takes 27s to complete the jump Turn. As a comparison (alt j) to jump anywhere, no matter how far the current position is from the target position, it will complete the jump instantly without loading. Its jump time is even less than 1s. This smooth experience makes People are obsessed. Every time I jump, my subconscious tells me that it is the most convenient to use (alt g), but before I use it, I always subconsciously consider whether this jump will take me more than ten seconds or even more than twenty seconds. Jumping to this position may not be very important? The brain is often in this kind of thinking entanglement and pulling. The scroll jump of (alt g) type is changed to the momentary jump of (alt j) type, which is really a great improvement to the experience.

Yellen

Guys, do you usually use the highlight in all panes (alt g) function? What do you do when you find something you want to read and want to view the full original text? Use ctrl k to search for relevant content and jump to the original text Want to check? Actually there is a better way, that is to use (alt g) Maybe there are many people who have not used this feature, this is a great feature, you can use dual panes one for filtering, you can more See in detail that the searched content can display more content than ctrl k search, and then directly click on the original text you want to view and click (alt g) on another pane to jump to the original text, because the selection The search will always keep the jump to any place freely and conveniently without having to repeatedly click ctrl k every time and then repeatedly enter the search content to split the jump. (alt g) is really easy to use!!!

But there are really some problems with this feature that need to be noticed now……..