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Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

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Re: Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

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Post by tsandall »

est wrote: post #13
rorrr wrote: post #8

What I really miss in all these fast small editors is the quick-jump features that actually analyze the code and let me do things like 1) Jump the the function/method definition (even if it's in a different file) when I press Ctrl and click on the function name. Eclipse does this. 2) Quick find of the function/method definition across the whole project. Eclipse does this as well (Ctrl + R). I don't use Eclipse that m…

> Jump the the function/method definition for scripting languages, define a function as concatenated string in eval(), how could you find the function definition, without actually run the script for once? Even if you run the script once, what if there is a delete_file() function you accidently called? So do we need to implement a sandboxed VM in order to find definition, theoretical perfectly speaking?

sure, theoretically speaking you can't figure out everything until runtime, however even with 'scripting language' code you can still get quite far with basic static analysis.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

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Post by veidr »

The great thing about ST2's autocompletion is that it is totally extensible, allowing you to hack your own completion routines.

I wrote an indexer for Objective-J code last year, that scans a set of folders (which can include the Cappuccino frameworks if you like) and creates a completion index of all the class names, methods, functions, etc. It was trivial to make an ST2 plugin that completes using that data.

The abilitity to write your own autocompletion plugins for the freaky/obscure kinds of files you use really rocks. Even without heavy-duty semantic analysis of the code, you can get 90% of the way there and it is really useful.

The main problem right now is that the UI is still too narrow. Voting this issue up could help get that fixed:

http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/85632-need-the-complet...

Re: Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

#23

Post by thristian »

est wrote: post #14
tumult wrote: post #9

I really wish Emacs had smooth scrolling, indent guides and that Minimap. Those are some killer features that you can't just implement in Emacs' scripting language. edit: minimap exists! (Obviously only in GUI Emacs) Animated sub-line scrolling probably requires hacking the Emacs source. Indent guides might be possible just in elisp, but I don't know how good they would look.

> you can't just implement in Emacs' scripting language. you can't implement minimap in CLI. It's a GUI concept.

Now now, let's not be hasty. Here's a text-mode app with thumbnails across the bottom of the screen:

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/neercs

Re: Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

#24

Post by johns »

est wrote: post #13
rorrr wrote: post #8

What I really miss in all these fast small editors is the quick-jump features that actually analyze the code and let me do things like 1) Jump the the function/method definition (even if it's in a different file) when I press Ctrl and click on the function name. Eclipse does this. 2) Quick find of the function/method definition across the whole project. Eclipse does this as well (Ctrl + R). I don't use Eclipse that m…

> Jump the the function/method definition for scripting languages, define a function as concatenated string in eval(), how could you find the function definition, without actually run the script for once? Even if you run the script once, what if there is a delete_file() function you accidently called? So do we need to implement a sandboxed VM in order to find definition, theoretical perfectly speaking?

Or just don't offer click navigation on functions defined in eval(). Acceptable trade off.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

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Post by rorrr »

est wrote: post #13
rorrr wrote: post #8

What I really miss in all these fast small editors is the quick-jump features that actually analyze the code and let me do things like 1) Jump the the function/method definition (even if it's in a different file) when I press Ctrl and click on the function name. Eclipse does this. 2) Quick find of the function/method definition across the whole project. Eclipse does this as well (Ctrl + R). I don't use Eclipse that m…

> Jump the the function/method definition for scripting languages, define a function as concatenated string in eval(), how could you find the function definition, without actually run the script for once? Even if you run the script once, what if there is a delete_file() function you accidently called? So do we need to implement a sandboxed VM in order to find definition, theoretical perfectly speaking?

That's such an edge case. I've never seen anybody defining functions in evals, especially as concatenated strings.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

#26

Post by dflock »

Anyone using this editor should install this plugin first:

http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

It's fantastic and gives you a simple in-editor way to add/remove other plugins, direct from their github repos, without needing to leave or restart the editor. It also automatically keeps them all up to date.

Once it's installed, you can just use the command palette (ctrl+shift+p) to install any of these plugins: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community, plus any others that you add via their github repo.

Re: Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

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Post by [deleted] »

tumult wrote: post #9

I really wish Emacs had smooth scrolling, indent guides and that Minimap. Those are some killer features that you can't just implement in Emacs' scripting language. edit: minimap exists! (Obviously only in GUI Emacs) Animated sub-line scrolling probably requires hacking the Emacs source. Indent guides might be possible just in elisp, but I don't know how good they would look.

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Re: Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

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Post by itmag »

veidr wrote: post #22

The great thing about ST2's autocompletion is that it is totally extensible, allowing you to hack your own completion routines. I wrote an indexer for Objective-J code last year, that scans a set of folders (which can include the Cappuccino frameworks if you like) and creates a completion index of all the class names, methods, functions, etc. It was trivial to make an ST2 plugin that completes using that data. The ab…

What would it take to get it to be as smart as, say, Intellisense?
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