UI review: jshell commands

[Paul Sandoz]

On Jul 1, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> 3.  I don't think we ever came to consensus on /edit.  Right now, the popup editor says "experimental"; did we declare success or failure on this experiment?  I thought we were leaning towards dropping it.
>> 
>> Right, no closure on the default simple window.
>> Other’s thoughts?
>> 
> 
> When i typed /edit i got a "nice" surprise, one that i did not really appreciate :-) as i was expecting the current line to be populated with the source (e.g. the result of pressing up-arrow X times), rather than an AWT window popping up with that source.
> 

But of course that does not work well for multi-line expressions. The switching of context to edit a multi-line expression is awkward, but i don't have any good ideas on how to improve that.

Paul.