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Re: What IDE features do we need?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: What IDE features do we need? |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:21:16 +0300 |
> From: Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:29:04 +0200
>
> Well, *intellisense* is an intelligent completion. For example, let's
> say in Java I have an instance of a class foo, then typing
>
> myFooInstance.<completion-key>
>
> will complete all field and method names, that are applicable in that
> context, e.g. they're defined in the class Foo or one of its super
> classes and they have the correct visibility. The same can be done when
> completing function parameters. For example, if there's a method
> doMagic(Bar bar) in class Foo, then
>
> myFooInstance.doMagic(<completion-key>
>
> will only propose local and global variables of class Bar or
> function/method calls that return a reference to a Bar instance.
>
> With *browsing* one means the ability to quickly grasp all informations
> of the classes and functions. For example, if point is on an instance
> of Foo, a simple command should take me to its definition. Some more
> advanced queries could be
>
> - Find all places in subclasses of Foo, where the method
> Foo.doMagic(Bar bar) is overwritten.
>
> - Find all function calls of Foo.doMagic()
>
> *Refactoring* basically means restructuring the code, so that it's more
> clean and maintainable. Some common refactorings are:
>
> - Extract method: Mark a region in a long method, say "Extract
> method", the IDE asks for a name and then creates a new method which
> contains the code of the region. The parameters and the new
> function call replacing the extracted code are figured out
> automagically.
>
> - Simple renaming: You say rename at any part of the code, may it be a
> variable, a class or a function. That will rename every occurence
> in a semantic correct manner. If you rename doMagic(), every call
> in the whole project will be renamed, default or overwriting
> definitions in super/sub classes will be renamed, the JavaDoc source
> documentation will be adapted and so on. In Java, if you rename a
> class, the file has to be renamed as well.
>
> - Change the signature of a method, ...
>
> All these features (and much more) work out of the box with the Eclipse
> IDE for Java.
Emacs already has infrastructure for most of those features (in etags
and in Ebrowse), sometimes even more than one package that offers a
different implementation of the same functionality, but we need better
UI for them and better graphical methods of presenting the output.
- RE: What IDE features do we need? defaults!], (continued)
- RE: What IDE features do we need? defaults!], klaus.berndl, 2008/04/22
- RE: What IDE features do we need? defaults!], Drew Adams, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/22
- RE: What IDE features do we need?, Drew Adams, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, joakim, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Eric Hanchrow, 2008/04/22
- RE: What IDE features do we need?, Drew Adams, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Juri Linkov, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/23
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Tassilo Horn, 2008/04/23
- Re: What IDE features do we need?,
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- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Mike Mattie, 2008/04/28
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Mike Mattie, 2008/04/28
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/28
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Bruce Stephens, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Tassilo Horn, 2008/04/24