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Re: I want a text editor that is a pain in the ass

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This is the most ridiculous post I've read in a while. It's written by someone who's never used a proper IDE. The IDE makes you write bad code ? This must have been written by someone who's a complete noob, honestly. What a rubbish. "You should only be writing a couple of lines of code per day" ... Really ?

Well, you called him a noob, so I guess personal attacks are fair-play. Let me guess: You're the kind of programmer who immediately invokes a debugger when something unexpected happens.

No I actually rely on my unit tests and very rarely I'm using the debugger (which is awesome by the way). In my book any "programmer" who say's "You shouldn't be writing more than a couple of lines of code a day" is a ... not even noob, dunno what to call him. If your opinion is that IDE makes you a shitty programmer than I honestly don't think you know what you're talking about. Sorry.

Re: I want a text editor that is a pain in the ass

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This is not wise in my opnion. You do not have to go to the other extreme because some programmers do mistakes when using IDEs. What CAN be done is keep improving IDEs and make the autocomplete features, for instance, smarter and more interactive. One idea related to that, for example, that I've always had in mind but was always lazy to implement is a smarter contextual Copy and Paste feature (i.e. "hey, this variable is already in this context, do you wanna rename this and declare another variable instead?" in a visual way).

Let's be honest, who here never had a "copy'n paste" bug. I always kid around the office that developers should not have CTRL+V.

Also, one might argue that by his point of view you could just program in assembly, or in XKCD butterfly style.

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