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Jaikiran Pai wrote:Modern day IDEs already have a feature where a particular key combination gets you that, without you having to type all of it.
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Andy Jack wrote:
Jaikiran Pai wrote:Modern day IDEs already have a feature where a particular key combination gets you that, without you having to type all of it.
Ok, how do i enable that on my eclipse ? I don't see anything when i type Sys...It starts appearing only when i type System.
Jaikiran Pai wrote:
I'm on IntelliJ these days, but from what I remember, you have to just type sop and then Ctrl+Space (or whatever the auto completion key combination is).
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Andy Jack wrote:
Jaikiran Pai wrote:
I'm on IntelliJ these days, but from what I remember, you have to just type sop and then Ctrl+Space (or whatever the auto completion key combination is).
Why do you use intellij ? Is eclipse and netbeans not good enough for you ?
Jaikiran Pai wrote:
I'm on IntelliJ these days, but from what I remember, you have to just type sop and then Ctrl+Space (or whatever the auto completion key combination is).
Andy Jack wrote:
Jaikiran Pai wrote:Modern day IDEs already have a feature where a particular key combination gets you that, without you having to type all of it.
Ok, how do i enable that on my eclipse ? I don't see anything when i type Sys...It starts appearing only when i type System.
After that, there is more selection and pressing keys.
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:Another option is
which lets you type all sorts of things:
This has the (arguable) advantage that the actual source code is less wordy. Sometimes this could make your code clearer, although other times it might be considered confusing.
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Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:You can, of course, use a debugger for debugging!
Bear Bibeault wrote:In other posts you have seemed concerned with how things would reflect on an employer, so I'll let you know that if you were on my team, this would be an epic fail!
Adding superfluous wrapper methods around existing methods -- especially those that are widely used and understood -- just to "save typing" would not fly on my watch. Extra cruft is bad. It's a bug waiting to happen, and it's confusing to everyone else.
As has already been pointed out, it's an IDE's job to make writing code easier, not adding extra goop to the actual code.
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Bear Bibeault wrote:[I]f you were on my team, this would be an epic fail!
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking....
Greg Charles wrote:You may have just been born too late Andy. I remember grizzled old programers showing me how to alias ls to l and cp to c in order to save keystrokes.
Bear Bibeault wrote: DEC, we used a language called BLISS, which had a very powerful macro capability that put the macro facility in any other language to shame.