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You definitely don't need to go to a full IDE just to get find-definition and find-references. Those are basic features of any ctags-enabled editor, and nowaday

You definitely don't need to go to a full IDE just to get find-definition and find-references. Those are basic features of any ctags-enabled editor, and nowadays with the momentum behind LSPs you get carrier-grade versions of it without even needing to generate a tag file. (In fact, Neovim's next version will actually ship with an LSP client, you won't even need an extension for it). I just bind 'gd' and 'gr' to go to definitions and references, respectively, and I'm good to go in vim.

bordercases 7y ago
Very popular LSPs actually have poor support for basic definition/reference jumping. `javascript-typescript-language-server` sticks out to me as my first disappointment. And the only implementation of a vue language server is no better, where tls would just throw errors for mixing HTML templates with scripts even if it handles the Javascript properly.
- fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
  Whichever language server the tide package uses in emacs has excellent jump to definition abilities.
m0zg 7y ago
There's also YouCompleteMe, which gives you completion for half a dozen popular languages.
dleslie 7y ago
Emacs has dumb-jump, which is just... Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. It doesn't perform any deep semantic analysis; it just abuses whatever existing grep-like tools you have and a bare minimum understanding of the language syntax to find likely correct definitions. https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Holy hell, it's the missing companion for Hippie Expand! For non-emacsers, hippie-expand completes the word you're typing by throwing a bunch of heuristics at it, most notable of which is "search this and every other opened buffer for the last few things before the cursor, and see if this produces a completion". (A funny side effect of this heuristic is that it essentially behaves like a Markov chain. If you have it bound to a key, say M-/, then you can type a starting word and repeatedly press "M-/ Space", and it'll start generating text based on what you have in your open buffers.) https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HippieExpand https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HippieExpand

bordercases 7y ago

Very popular LSPs actually have poor support for basic definition/reference jumping. `javascript-typescript-language-server` sticks out to me as my first disappointment. And the only implementation of a vue language server is no better, where tls would just throw errors for mixing HTML templates with scripts even if it handles the Javascript properly.

fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
Whichever language server the tide package uses in emacs has excellent jump to definition abilities.

m0zg 7y ago

There's also YouCompleteMe, which gives you completion for half a dozen popular languages.

dleslie 7y ago

Emacs has dumb-jump, which is just... Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. It doesn't perform any deep semantic analysis; it just abuses whatever existing grep-like tools you have and a bare minimum understanding of the language syntax to find likely correct definitions. https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump

TeMPOraL 7y ago
Holy hell, it's the missing companion for Hippie Expand! For non-emacsers, hippie-expand completes the word you're typing by throwing a bunch of heuristics at it, most notable of which is "search this and every other opened buffer for the last few things before the cursor, and see if this produces a completion". (A funny side effect of this heuristic is that it essentially behaves like a Markov chain. If you have it bound to a key, say M-/, then you can type a starting word and repeatedly press "M-/ Space", and it'll start generating text based on what you have in your open buffers.) https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HippieExpand https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HippieExpand