From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-04-29T22:29:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and IDE

On 4/29/05, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In a C++ project that I am doing at work, there's a similar
>> ratio. At any given time, I'm working with between three and
>> fifteen files. I will use the VisualStudio environment for code
>> completion and a few project-centric searches (it's a bit smarter
>> than a text search that I do on Windows, but equally smart to a
>> good find-grep search that I do on our Unix ports), and for
>> integrated debugging, but that's about it. I do 95% of my code
>> editing in vim.
> FWIW, the workflow I've converged on here at work (~1M lines of
> visual c++, though, as you say, seldom working on more than 5-10
> files at any given time) is gvim for editing, glark for searching
> and visual studio for symbol lookup (better than ctags for its own
> projects) and compiling (it lets you jump to errors).

I'll have to play with glark, especially since it will work on our
other platforms, too. And you're right -- VS is better than ctags
for VS projects.

-austin
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