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Uh..have you never heard of IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse? Or RubyMine? Or Netbeans even... They pretty much do everything you're talking about.

• dusklight 17y ago
  Yeah, why was the OP upvoted? Are there seriously that many people on Hacker News who have never used a real ide?
  • nostrademons 17y ago
    Depending on the language, IDEs are often not worth the trouble. I was big Eclipse and then Netbeans user when I did Java dev. When I started working in C++, I used Eclipse for about two days before I went back to vim. The Eclipse functions I depended upon most in Java - navigation, autocomplete, and refactoring - just didn't work all that well in C++. IntelliJ IDEA has exactly what the author implemented, but IntelliJ IDEA can also take about 5 minutes to start up, and takes up all your screen real estate. When you work in 5 languages on a regular basis and just want your editor to start up quickly, that can be quite a pain.
• henrikschroder 17y ago
  Also, if you're using Visual Studio, you can either get Resharper or the free plugin StudioTools: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx Both add better file/class/method navigation, and I find them invaluable.
• joshd 17y ago
  Netbeans? There is a drop down of all open tabs, but that can't be filtered. There is also a window which shows open documents but for some unfathomable reason it can't be docked. The only navigation I can see for open projects is the tree view which is painful for large projects with files scattered across the project (e.g. web frameworks). edit: Ah, I see. The article wasn't about text editors. It was about how file navigation (within whatever environment you use) sucks.