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I worked at a company that had some files that were thousands of lines long. The result of 10 years of entropy build up. When you've worked with these files l
by swalsh 10y ago
I worked at a company that had some files that were thousands of lines long. The result of 10 years of entropy build up.
When you've worked with these files long enough, and it sounds kind of funny, but the shape of the code becomes very familiar. Searching for keywords though usually my primary method of finding places in code was sometimes less effective because it would occur multiple times (think function names) however I was intimately familiar with the shape of the code, so I could just jump to the 2 indented part.
- camus2 10y agoA tree view of whatever you are working on would be more efficient to jump through parts of code, like Vim TagBar for instance. VSCore has Alt+O for symbols but I wish it had a tree view on the side of the editor.
- barrkel 10y agoYou might think that, but someone else might think differently. It depends on whether you have a spatial sense of the code, or symbolic.
- coldtea 10y ago>A tree view of whatever you are working on would be more efficient to jump through parts of code, like Vim TagBar for instance. Not if you are the visual type...