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Why do modern editors have minimaps now? Do people actually find them useful?
by david2ndaccount 5y ago
Why do modern editors have minimaps now? Do people actually find them useful?
- asdman123 5y agoI personally like them for resolving merge conflicts by hand. It really helps just clicking on a section in blueish to instantly jump to a conflict in large-ish files.
- nxpnsv 5y agoThis can be done by colorbands on the scrollbar though
- cjohansson 5y agoI agree, it's a waste of screen estate and focus estate, I can't see the benefit of a minimap. I usually use imenu in Emacs so any definition is 0.1s away with a keypress
- bodge5000 5y agoI don't tend to find horizontal screen estate to be all that useful, unless A). You have your editor massively zoomed in or B). your lines are (subjectively) too long I dont find them massively useful, but its nice to have
- nxpnsv 5y agoI’ve seen people using banner style comments visible in the minimap. That is almost useful. But not really.
- oblio 5y agoIn VSCode you can make it narrow and replace the scrollbar with it, it looks cool :-p
- jerrygoyal 5y agojust tried and i think i like it.