I am constantly running VS and VIM with the window split into 2 panes.  Most
of the time, one pane has tests and the other has the code I'm working on,
but this isn't always the case.  Sometimes I just want to refer to another
method - be it in the same file or another file.  An approach like Code
Bubbles, at the very least, is a more efficient use of screen real-estate
since it only displays the functions (including tests) I care about and not
all of the surrounding lines.

I'm not a proponent for moving away from file-based approaches to managing
code, building binaries, etc.. I would, however, love to use an editor that
is more congruent with the way I work.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Scott Koon <[email protected]> wrote:

> My first thought was Smalltalk and Self as well. Check out Squeak..
>
> I like the idea of just working on a single method at a time. What if there
> were two windows though? The top window has the method you are working on,
> and the bottom window has the tests for that method? :)
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Ronald Woan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> All of the Smalltalk derived and Self languages seem to have gone this
>> route especially if they have persistent worlds. I was a veteran of Visual
>> Age for Java which I think was a complete failure with users not coming from
>> Smalltalk complaining they couldn't see entire files the way they were used
>> to or used file based utilities if they were from the UNIX tradition...
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> On Monday, April 11, 2011 4:54:12 PM UTC-4, Wade Matveyenko wrote:
>>>
>>> I have to admit, that the first IDEs I thought about based on your
>>> description were VisualWorks (Cincom Smalltalk) and VisualAge (for both
>>> Smalltalk and Java, originally from IBM, now from instantiations).  And yes,
>>> I spent many years in both of those IDEs :-)
>>>
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