On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:01:00PM -0700, Ross Werner wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, "Jacob Fugal" wrote:
> As far as the benefits of an IDE (like Eclipse), I'll second the > notion that you just have to see it in action. I'm not sure what > exactly emacs can do, but vim can't hop through a dozen files > following the flow of code execution just by clicking on method > names. If I want to see all the files that call a certain public > method, with vim I'd likely have to grep and hope I don't get any > false hits. I know Emacs has this facility; it's called etags. I thought there was support for tags in vim, and possibly for good old vi. > With Eclipse it's a simple key combination and never any false > results. If I change the name of a class or a method or a variable, > Eclipse will change every reference in the entire project. That's cute but hazardous. Suppose I only want to change the name of a method, and then write a new method with the old name? Done that. Will it leave overloaded methods of the same name alone? Emacs has a search and replace facility (regexs if you want 'em) that works with tags, so it has almost the same facility. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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