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Use nimgrep?

overthrow 4y ago
Can you integrate that into an IDE? In many IDEs, if you hit ctrl-shift-f, it will search the project for the selected text with just one keystroke. Can vscode be made to Do The Right Thing for Nim without extra fiddling on every search?
- michaelsbradley 4y ago
  Good question, but I don't know the answer (yet) because I don't use vscode, sorry.
- Manabu-eo 4y ago
  Your Nim project will be in a consistent casing, otherwise the compiler will be warning you about inconsistent spelling. Regular Ctrl-shift-f will work just fine.
Nullabillity 4y ago
Ripgrep is already integrated into my editor and muscle memory. Nimgrep is just yet another special case tool that only exists because Nim decided to spend its weirdness budget on inconsequential nonsense.
- xigoi 4y ago
  The “weirdness budget” concept is nonsense. Are you saying that programming languages should do only some things right?
planetis 4y ago
@Nullabillity The only nonsense we are dealing with constantly is opinions of people who haven't ever bothered to use this feature before declaring it "inconsequential nonsense".
- Nullabillity 4y ago
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  - planetis 4y ago
    Very mature, congratulations! Naming has nothing to do with style insensitivity. You can write M_ya_wse_s_omEv_ar in any language, yes? Proof that you don't understand what you're arguing about.
    - Nullabillity 4y ago
      > You can write M_ya_wse_s_omEv_ar in any language, yes? Yes? That doesn't mean that we should add features that encourage that kind of confusion. Especially not when they, again, help nobody and bring no actual benefit.
      - monetus 4y ago
        (Not who you responed to) Just to argue against there being no benefit, I have a cognitive impairment that occasionally puts me in an altered state, a delirium to varying degrees. camelCase is much more difficult to read at that point, so I can get confused ridiculously easily. I tend leave a bunch of comments and then step away, but sometimes I can work well through it; things like horrendous variable names/regexs will throw me. I default to snake_case but compile over when I share the code. This is my unique situation and predilection to being able to read one form more easily than another, but it does indeed help me.
        Nullabillity 4y ago
        That's understandable, but doesn't that cause the same issues when reading documentation or third-party code?
        monetus 4y ago
        I can back away from those while leaving the tabs open and be not too confused coming back, not having temporarily broken them. When I'm in the middle of refactoring especially though, getting a seizure and trying to back away without jumbling the house of cards is a lot easier with whatever pattern recognition I have around snake_case. Edit: curious, have a preference besides consistency for cases?
v3ss0n 4y ago
Why would someone change its tooling because of a particular Language ?
Manabu-eo 4y ago
Do you use it regularly? I don't, and I don't have any problem finding what I need with regular ctrl+F in Nim, because Nim projects are internally consistent in terms of style, with the compiler helping enforcing it with `-styleCheck`. So don't bring up nimgrep like it's a necessity when it's more of a last resort tool nowadays. You will be just attracting flaming.

Use nimgrep?

Can you integrate that into an IDE? In many IDEs, if you hit ctrl-shift-f, it will search the project for the selected text with just one keystroke. Can vscode be made to Do The Right Thing for Nim without extra fiddling on every search?

michaelsbradley 4y ago
Good question, but I don't know the answer (yet) because I don't use vscode, sorry.
Manabu-eo 4y ago
Your Nim project will be in a consistent casing, otherwise the compiler will be warning you about inconsistent spelling. Regular Ctrl-shift-f will work just fine.

Nullabillity 4y ago

Ripgrep is already integrated into my editor and muscle memory. Nimgrep is just yet another special case tool that only exists because Nim decided to spend its weirdness budget on inconsequential nonsense.

xigoi 4y ago
The “weirdness budget” concept is nonsense. Are you saying that programming languages should do only some things right?

planetis 4y ago

@Nullabillity The only nonsense we are dealing with constantly is opinions of people who haven't ever bothered to use this feature before declaring it "inconsequential nonsense".

Nullabillity 4y ago
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- planetis 4y ago
  Very mature, congratulations! Naming has nothing to do with style insensitivity. You can write M_ya_wse_s_omEv_ar in any language, yes? Proof that you don't understand what you're arguing about.
  - Nullabillity 4y ago
    > You can write M_ya_wse_s_omEv_ar in any language, yes? Yes? That doesn't mean that we should add features that encourage that kind of confusion. Especially not when they, again, help nobody and bring no actual benefit.
    - monetus 4y ago
      (Not who you responed to) Just to argue against there being no benefit, I have a cognitive impairment that occasionally puts me in an altered state, a delirium to varying degrees. camelCase is much more difficult to read at that point, so I can get confused ridiculously easily. I tend leave a bunch of comments and then step away, but sometimes I can work well through it; things like horrendous variable names/regexs will throw me. I default to snake_case but compile over when I share the code. This is my unique situation and predilection to being able to read one form more easily than another, but it does indeed help me.
      - Nullabillity 4y ago
        That's understandable, but doesn't that cause the same issues when reading documentation or third-party code?
        monetus 4y ago
        I can back away from those while leaving the tabs open and be not too confused coming back, not having temporarily broken them. When I'm in the middle of refactoring especially though, getting a seizure and trying to back away without jumbling the house of cards is a lot easier with whatever pattern recognition I have around snake_case. Edit: curious, have a preference besides consistency for cases?

v3ss0n 4y ago

Why would someone change its tooling because of a particular Language ?

Manabu-eo 4y ago

Do you use it regularly? I don't, and I don't have any problem finding what I need with regular ctrl+F in Nim, because Nim projects are internally consistent in terms of style, with the compiler helping enforcing it with `-styleCheck`. So don't bring up nimgrep like it's a necessity when it's more of a last resort tool nowadays. You will be just attracting flaming.