Idea: autoselect enclosing function when evaluating a single line in the editor

[hamoid]

Currently, when editing a Processing based program, I can press Ctrl+Shift+X to reevaluate the selection.

This works if I select the whole draw function for example.

But if I don't select anything, it will give an error because evaluating p.stroke(255, 0, 0) out of any context fails (p is unknown).

The SuperCollider IDE solves this by implementing a feature that autoselects the enclosing function. That would very convenient for experimentation. In my example, I can keep changing the RGB values of stroke and press Ctrl+Shift+X to observe the results.

One approach would be: if nothing is selected, start scanning from the caret position backwards until function is found, then forwards until the matching } is found (accounting for if statements and for loops), then evaluate that block leaving the caret position untouched.

[victordiaz]

I would love to see that!
I'm just wondering how would it work in a case where I want to execute only one line within some brackets (In this case I dont need the internal context)

The live execution works in more use cases than Processing, so how it work for more scenarios? Maybe different shortcuts?

By the way @hamoid , what is the default shortcut for other live coding environments?

[hamoid]

I think shortcuts involving [enter] would be nice. Like ctrl+enter, shift+enter, alt+enter or ctrl+shift+enter... something like that.

This is what I have in SuperCollider, but I don't remember the defaults:

There could be two shortcuts: one for the current line, and one for the current selection or the surrounding function if there's no selection.

[victordiaz]

I changed the shortcut to Control + Enter by default. It feels much nicer