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Code completion, search, cross referencing, and all sorts of other features in vim, emacs, and all kinds of other editors (including Visual Studio) predate LSP
by jrumbut 4y ago
Code completion, search, cross referencing, and all sorts of other features in vim, emacs, and all kinds of other editors (including Visual Studio) predate LSP by decades.
LSP is cool though, an advancement certainly, but it is not a completely new thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags
- jcelerier 4y agoIf you think ctags or rtags are even remotely comparable to what an actual IDE brings you you have absolutely never used more than 10% of what an IDE with semantic understanding of your code can do
- jrumbut 4y agoThe post I replied to brought up a very narrow set of features that had been available in vim for a long time.
- jcelerier 4y agoit brings up "Code completion, search, cross referencing, and all sorts of other feature" and again, those work much less well in ctags / rtags than with a proper IDE