On Saturday, 19 May 2012 at 20:00:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Now that _is_ pretty cool.
:D yes!
See, the thing is, one of the reasons I like vim in spite of
its warts (yes it has warts, including what we're discussing
here about syntax trees transformations) is that it gives me a
_unified_ environment for working with all kinds of files
Indeed, that's one of the major reasons people use text editors
over IDEs for a lot of tasks.
Don't be shocked if you find a vim plugin that does just that.
;-)
I dunno, I might be xD
It would be really cool if there were syntax tree manipulators
Omg yeah. And I think D is probably the closest to getting
something like that.
I remember asking about whether something like this this in
StackOverflow, but (perhaps because I didn't phrase myself
properly) people didn't really understand what I was saying and I
kinda got blank responses lol.
Ah, but isn't that what we programmers specialize in? Turning
theory into reality. ;-)
Touche
Actually, vim does have some rudimentary support for moving
across scopes. I don't know about statements, though.
Yeah, editors often have brace-matching and stuff ("go to
matching/enclosing brace") but yeah, not statements.
Honestly, I like the layout better (the standard PC keyboard is
way too wide). However, the _size_ of a laptop keyboard is just
too uncomfortable for me
Yup, I've been debating if I want a real-sized keyboard or not...
might order one these days. :)
OK I admit I was being unfair. See, my problem is, the second I
have to deal with rodent navigation and clicking through menus,
I just get really really frustrated that I can't just tell the
stupid machine to do what I already know I want to do.
Totally understand what you mean -- I could say the same thing
for *nix tools, just the other way around. (Why can't I *browse*
my choices? why do I have to look at /documentation/, for God's
sake, to figure out how to just locate a file on my computer?
etc.)
Yikes!!
Indeed, that says it all. xD
You do realize that building GCC involves two stages, right?
Someone told me like a year later. XD
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=301
Ah, the wonders of opensource. :-)
:) I have a love-hate relationship with OS. It's among the
greatest things in CS but it also has its own problems. I was
going to post a link to a blog post I read about it, but while I
agree with it, it's a little harsher than my view, so maybe not.
xD
Yikes! I highly recommend using plain vanilla vim, no GUI
Oh geez, that'll take a while lol. At least with GVim, I can
discover the command names through the menus haha.
