Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-09-02 19:56, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Well, personally I like to structure my code so that such big files
> don't happen. :) But then again, there's *cough*std.algorithm*ahem*...
>
> But I have to say that even with overly-large files, vim's concept of
> using search to find stuff instead of scrolling and trying to find
> things visually, helps one get into a mindset that makes navigating
> large source files more manageable. I used to be a big fan of visual
> navigation -- pgUp, pgDn, paragraph up, paragraph down, etc., but beyond
> 500 lines or so, they quickly become impractical. Having a 1-key search
> function (that doesn't involve popups and other such annoyances) with
> reversible direction is a far superior approach. It also saves a LOT of
> keystrokes spent navigating horizontally when trying to reach a specific
> point on a line: no need to hit left/right keys 40 times or move your
> hand to the mouse and back, just search for a pair of characters (3-4
> keystrokes) and you're exactly where you need to be. It took me a while
> to get used to this mode of navigation, but I found it far superior to
> whatever it was I used to do.

I really like the fuzzy search in TextMate. One hotkey for files and one 
for classes/functions in the current file. If I don't type anything I 
get the full list, which gives a nice overview of a file. Although it's 
only names, no signatures.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg