Provide some project wide action like search and find/replace, and also store the project specific settings that vary from project to project, like indentation.
On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 9:31:42 PM UTC+3, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > I have always been curious about why so many IDEs support "projects". I > would be interested to know why many people seem to find them useful. I do > a lot of coding every day, but I have never found a use for the projects > feature. What should a good "projects" feature do? > > Cheers, > Daniel. > > > On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:06:03 UTC+2, David Higgins wrote: >> >> The julia-client package for Atom is from the Juno project. It requires >> Julia 0.4 so I haven't tried it yet. But there is support for syntax >> highlighting from the language-julia package. >> >> I've started using Atom, it's quite nice. But there is no project support >> yet, which really sucks from my point of view. I find the editor slightly >> more intuitive than Sublime Text, which many aspects of it are blatantly >> modelled on, but without support for projects it's only good for a certain >> style of coding. >> >> David. >> >> On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:34:26 UTC+2, Sisyphuss wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, both. By the way, is there any relation between Juno and Atom? >>> What's the trend? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 1:59:55 PM UTC+2, Nils Gudat wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes, it does (that's the point of having the bundle(!) available on the >>>> website). >>>> To connect to a different instance of Julia, follow the steps here: >>>> http://junolab.org/docs/install-manual.html >>>> However, I don't think JunoLT is working with 0.4 (at least it wasn't >>>> when I last checked two weeks ago), and in general efforts have shifted to >>>> the new Juno Atom client. >>>> >>>> Long story short, if you want to work in 0.4 you should probably do >>>> this: https://github.com/JunoLab/atom-julia-client/tree/master/manual >>>> >>>
