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ECB Methods-buffer

The ECB-Methods buffer contains all parsed and recognized tokens of the current source-buffer. It is called "Method-buffer" because ECB is mostly designed for browsing sourcecode files and for programming-languages these tokens are often methods (and variables etc.) To simplify explanations we talk in the following only about methods and variables - but in general the method-buffer can contain any kind of tokens (e.g. sections and subsections for texinfo buffers).

• When a method/variable is selected with the primary mouse button (see Using the mouse) or RETURN (see Using the keyboard) the edit buffer will jump to the method/variable.

  IMPORTANT: If you use the POWER-click (i.e. hold down the SHIFT-key while clicking with the primary mouse button (see Using the mouse) or RETURN (see Using the keyboard)) on a node in this buffer then the edit-buffer will be narrowed to the selected token (see also option ecb-token-visit-post-actions). But this works only for sources parsed by semantic, not by imenu or etags!

• Clicking on a method/variable with the secondary mouse button or C-RETURN (see Usage of ECB) will jump to the method in the other edit window.
• Right clicking on a method/variable will open a popup menu where different operation on the item under the mouse cursor can be performed.