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Posted by Oli Filth on 11/13/26 11:30
Jerry Stuckle said the following on 26/10/2005 02:55:
> Oli Filth wrote:
>
>> Andrew DeFaria said the following on 25/10/2005 19:07:
>>
>>
>> The biggest single reason I love an IDE that "understands" the
>> language? Project navigation. A project with 100 classes split over an
>> equally large number of source/header files, in a generic text editor,
>> if I wanted to look up the the implementation of X::Foo(), I'd either
>> have to remember that Class X is defined somewhere in source file Y,
>> then search that file (semi)manually, or do a global search for
>> "Foo()" and wade through the results. In an IDE, I click on X in
>> class-view, then click on Foo(), and I'm straight there (in VS, I
>> press F12 when the caret is on a call to X::Foo(), the effect is the
>> same).
>>
>
> Or, you just look it up in the project documentation. Of course, if you
> don't document, I see why you need an IDE!
Notice that I was referring to jumping to *implementation*, not
*doucmentation*...
But either way, wading through documentation to find something when you
could just press a button???
--
Oli
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