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I have just went through this with a project of mine, though unfortunately the code wasn’t autogenerated, so I needed to do a lot of mind-numbingly boring searc

by ay 1y ago

I have just went through this with a project of mine, though unfortunately the code wasn’t autogenerated, so I needed to do a lot of mind-numbingly boring search-and-replace commands. I have cobbled together a little utility that allowed to automate the process somewhat. Mostly a throwaway code with a heavy input from Claude, so the docs are in the code itself :-) But in case anyone can find it useful: https://github.com/ayourtch/tweak-code https://github.com/ayourtch/tweak-code

pdimitar 1y ago
Zero documentation? Do you expect potential users t9 figure it out by themselves?
- ay 1y ago
  Thanks for the feedback ! The evidently misguided assumption was that whoever uses it will need to tweak it anyhow, so might as well read it through. As I wrote - it’s very close to throwaway code. Anyway, I decide to experiment with Claude also writing a README - the result doesn’t seem too terribly incorrect on the first squint, and hopefully gives a slightly more impression of what that thing was attempting to do. (Disclaimer: I didn’t test it much other than my use case, so YMMV on whether it works at all).
  - pdimitar 1y ago
    That's much better, thanks. > The evidently misguided assumption was that whoever uses it will need to tweak it anyhow, so might as well read it through. As I wrote - it’s very close to throwaway code. Even if that assumption is true for part of the potential users, they would appreciate a starting point, you know. Now I have bookmarked it and will check it out at one point. If you ever figure you want to invest some more effort into it: try make it into an LSP server so it can integrate with LSP Code Actions directly.
    - ay 1y ago
      Thanks, hopefully it will be of any use and not too buggy ! (It was a classic “worked on my machine for my needs”, but I would be very suspicious of the autogenerated code being 100% bug-free). I looked shortly at LSP but never had experience with it, and it looked very overwhelming… (and given that I generally use vi, it seemed like a bit too much overhead to also start using a different editor or learn integrations - which I looked at but they seemed a bit unsatisfying). As a result this exercise got me into an entirely worse kind of shiny: writing my own TUI editor, with a function/type being the unit of editing rather than file. facepalm. probably entirely worthless exercise, but it is a ton of fun and that is what matters for now ! :-)
      - pdimitar 1y ago
        Well, you can at least check out Zed and Helix first? Many people say they work perfectly for them and that they are simpler than both Emacs and [Neo]vim. LSP Code Actions is super neat though. You can have a compiler error or a warning and when your cursor is positioned on it (inside the editor) you can invoke LSP Code Actions and have changes offered to you with a preview, then you can just agree to it and boom, it's done. Obviously this might be too much work or too tedious for a hobby project, but it's good for you to know what's out there and how it's used. I don't use LSP Code Actions too often but find them invaluable when I do.
        ay 1y ago
        I had looked at Zed, but it’s a GUI, and I would rather stay inside a terminal for a variety of reasons. Helix I didn’t try though… It might be a bit closer to what I am after, so I will definitely give it a try even if as a source of inspiration for my reinvention of bicycle ! Thanks a lot !

by ay 1y ago

pdimitar 1y ago

Zero documentation? Do you expect potential users t9 figure it out by themselves?

ay 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback ! The evidently misguided assumption was that whoever uses it will need to tweak it anyhow, so might as well read it through. As I wrote - it’s very close to throwaway code. Anyway, I decide to experiment with Claude also writing a README - the result doesn’t seem too terribly incorrect on the first squint, and hopefully gives a slightly more impression of what that thing was attempting to do. (Disclaimer: I didn’t test it much other than my use case, so YMMV on whether it works at all).
- pdimitar 1y ago
  That's much better, thanks. > The evidently misguided assumption was that whoever uses it will need to tweak it anyhow, so might as well read it through. As I wrote - it’s very close to throwaway code. Even if that assumption is true for part of the potential users, they would appreciate a starting point, you know. Now I have bookmarked it and will check it out at one point. If you ever figure you want to invest some more effort into it: try make it into an LSP server so it can integrate with LSP Code Actions directly.
  - ay 1y ago
    Thanks, hopefully it will be of any use and not too buggy ! (It was a classic “worked on my machine for my needs”, but I would be very suspicious of the autogenerated code being 100% bug-free). I looked shortly at LSP but never had experience with it, and it looked very overwhelming… (and given that I generally use vi, it seemed like a bit too much overhead to also start using a different editor or learn integrations - which I looked at but they seemed a bit unsatisfying). As a result this exercise got me into an entirely worse kind of shiny: writing my own TUI editor, with a function/type being the unit of editing rather than file. facepalm. probably entirely worthless exercise, but it is a ton of fun and that is what matters for now ! :-)
    - pdimitar 1y ago
      Well, you can at least check out Zed and Helix first? Many people say they work perfectly for them and that they are simpler than both Emacs and [Neo]vim. LSP Code Actions is super neat though. You can have a compiler error or a warning and when your cursor is positioned on it (inside the editor) you can invoke LSP Code Actions and have changes offered to you with a preview, then you can just agree to it and boom, it's done. Obviously this might be too much work or too tedious for a hobby project, but it's good for you to know what's out there and how it's used. I don't use LSP Code Actions too often but find them invaluable when I do.
      - ay 1y ago
        I had looked at Zed, but it’s a GUI, and I would rather stay inside a terminal for a variety of reasons. Helix I didn’t try though… It might be a bit closer to what I am after, so I will definitely give it a try even if as a source of inspiration for my reinvention of bicycle ! Thanks a lot !