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Uh..have you never heard of IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse? Or RubyMine? Or Netbeans even... They pretty much do everything you're talking about.
Both add better file/class/method navigation, and I find them invaluable.
I use Acme, it's got a smashing way to browse, open, and manage files.
Or are there any similar editors?
If you agreed with the message you would never have wasted that much breath on it, but you don't agree with it, and you don't have any good arguments against the article, so "Too orange!" it is. :-)
Uh..have you never heard of IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse? Or RubyMine? Or Netbeans even... They pretty much do everything you're talking about.
Yeah, why was the OP upvoted? Are there seriously that many people on Hacker News who have never used a real ide?
IntelliJ IDEA has exactly what the author implemented, but IntelliJ IDEA can also take about 5 minutes to start up, and takes up all your screen real estate. When you work in 5 languages on a regular basis and just want your editor to start up quickly, that can be quite a pain.
Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
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Everyone wants to be Dustin Curtis. Still, the author calling HN posters Neanderthals was a nice touch.
“Still, the author calling HN posters Neanderthals was a nice touch.” In this case quite appropriate, though. Having to scroll down one third of the page before you get to anything resembling a meaningful discussion about the actual content of the article cannot possibly be a good thing. Neither can the sneer and arrogance displayed in this thread. (I’m kind of aware of the irony of me participating in this thread. R…
This article boils down to "It isn't pretty enough, and I didn't write it." In other words: no actual relevant content. Just a lot of pretty images as text, BIG FONTS, and whining.
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Feel free to post some Emacs packages that provide what he's asking for. Your first post just dismissed him as a "typical designer" and focused only on the word ugly.
Anything, icicles, ido, ibuffer, and iswitchb, are also good tools.
Uh..have you never heard of IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse? Or RubyMine? Or Netbeans even... They pretty much do everything you're talking about.
The only navigation I can see for open projects is the tree view which is painful for large projects with files scattered across the project (e.g. web frameworks).
edit: Ah, I see. The article wasn't about text editors. It was about how file navigation (within whatever environment you use) sucks.
Typical designer. "Oh no, my text editor displays its status to me using text." Yeah. Some people get their eye-candy feed from lolcat videos, and then use their tools for work. (My desktop doesn't even have wobbly windows! Just a 1-px red border! How can I get any work done that way!) Also, I'm fairly certain that eproject gets rid of the "wall of text" that disqualifies Emacs. In a perl project, for example, I can…
Constantly mentioning how you're using a tiling wm is the new constantly mentioning you don't have a TV.