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by James Robertson.
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Extending your development environment is a process. First you have an idea. And then you implement it. And then either it sticks or it doesn't. Often tools that we thought would be handy aren't. And vice versa. Sometimes it takes time to get used to leveraging it.
The latter is the case with the alt-character shortcuts that ExtraRBForSUnitToo. I'm to the point now, where I really like the alt-r for running tests. Ctrl-o (format), ctrl-s (save/accept), alt-r (run tests) has gotten quite popular with me. And I'm finding the alt-t (toggle to/from test case) is growing on me. I'm so used to doing it the slow way, that I forget often, but when I get in the groove, this is just really handy. One thing I found though, was that I was leaving a trail of test case buffers four lanes wide behind me. I just published a "tweak" which attempts to solve that problem. When alt-t attempts to toggle to a test case, it will first search for and reuse buffers which are already test cases, but don't have an accompanying tested class buffer. It works pretty handy. Time will tell.