Posix vs. Windows

[Mehrdad]

On Friday, 18 May 2012 at 23:02:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> I find IDEs more painful to use than scratching your nails on a 
> chalkboard. The inability of running an IDE over a remote SSH 
> session without everything slowing down to a snail crawl makes 
> it completely unusable for me.

Have you tried running Eclipse/Visual Studio over Remote Desktop 
on Windows?
Was it actually that slow?


> In the amount of time it takes the beast to paint the screen, I 
> could've manually refactored the code three times over.

I don't think refactoring means what you think it means. xP


Ever tried "Rename all references"?

It's impossible to do correctly without IDE support, unless all 
your variable names are unique (idk about you, but I've never 
seen a project like that).

With an IDE (at least with C# in Visual Studio): just erase the 
identifier, type in the new name, Ctrl-Dot, and press Enter. 
(Probably similar with Eclipse.)

Literally, it takes 1-2 extra seconds, and it renames across your 
entire project.

I have *never* seen a text-based tool do this -- if you know of 
any, let me know!



> The use of a _real_ text editor

I use SciTE, with a handful of tweaks to the source code (not 
big, just small changes).

It works on Linux as well, and it's amazing. (Not quite as 
powerful as Emacs/Vim, but it's hella more intuitive/easier to 
use, so worth it IMO.)


> (i.e., NOT that monstrous shipwreck of an excuse for software 
> called notepad, or its dainbramaged second cousin wordpad)

LOL those are "editors"? I just thought they were 'pads'...


> Like, one that can filter an arbitrary text selection through 
> an arbitrary-complex shell command.
> Or that can repeatedly apply a complex sequence of editing 
> commands at a single keystroke (as opposed to navigating the 
> rodent through endless layers of menus).

Ever used macros in Visual Studio? (There might exist the same 
thing for Eclipse, idk.)

No?

Well, it does what you're saying.
In a more powerful way than you're saying. :P


> But I won't start the Visual Irritation vs. Extremely Massive 
> And Cumbersome System flamewar here. ;-)


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