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Yeah, it has always irritated me that most modern IDE's require a plugin or a poor quality built in terminal to give simple 'jump to error location' messages. I
by andrewchambers 9y ago
Yeah, it has always irritated me that most modern IDE's require a plugin or a poor quality built in terminal to give simple 'jump to error location' messages. It is a lot of fun to have magic shortcuts in any window on the whole OS with minimal program specific code.
I have wanted this functionality on linux/BSD since I saw Russ Cox do it in acme on plan9(port), I just didn't really have the will power to pull in a whole OS userspace on top of my current one.
- floren 9y agoI use acme as my IDE because it is basically a tiling window manager. I keep an acme window open in my source directory, and type things like "go build ." there. If there's a problem in the code, the output goes to an Errors window and I can just right-click on the line numbers to go where I need to go. Because I have the plumber running, I can also right-click on URLs, image paths, etc to have them automatically open in the appropriate application (browser, image viewer, etc). Of course, my colleagues think I'm insane because my editor encourages mouse use. I think they're insane because they bought a mouse but never use it :)
- agumonkey 9y agothere's a whole 2 orders of magnitude of free complexity that we added to our systems.. how much the right perspective and design changes the game