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I use my minimap sometimes. Some people are just more visual. Like, if I have a big file that has a class somewhere, and I know I took a bunch of notes on it,
by Brendinooo 6y ago
I use my minimap sometimes. Some people are just more visual.
Like, if I have a big file that has a class somewhere, and I know I took a bunch of notes on it, I can scan the minimap for the big block of green comment text, and click that section to jump directly to it.
Regardless, I'm not really short on horizontal space in a world where monitors are huge and 80-character lines are still the norm, so it costs little to keep it there.
- dmit 6y agoThis is it. In my head the code file I'm working on is closer to a (geographic) map than to a Table of Contents in a book. There are large islands and small ones, some of the small ones form archipelagos (like grouped up constant definitions at the top). The minimap is good at conveying the "shape" and relative size of these code sections at a glance.