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Ogre | 11 years ago

I approve of people trying to improve the editor experience. This is a good project! I have a nitpick though:

"forking the current panel using Ctrl+F is a game changer, as you don’t have to scroll away from your current code location when looking up something at a different place in the same file."

A game changer over what? Are there editors that don't let you do this? The two I mostly work in are Emacs and Visual Studio, and you can do this in both. (I'd actually have to hunt around for how to do it in VS, I use both side by side because of a whole lot of Emacs muscle memory, but it's there for sure)

It worries me that he's not actually aware of the features available in the editors he's trying to improve upon.

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MetaCosm|11 years ago

This is exactly what I thought. I set vim to always open in new splits, I often have the same file open in 3 splits for 3 functions. It press 2 keys to open a reference to a function in a new split with me looking at the function.

It seems like the author might not have ever learned how to properly use the existing editors.

Ad_Nauseam|11 years ago

Creating your own tools are easier than exploring existing tool's documentation...