How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal

Re:How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the term... by gpderetta on Thursday February 28, 2019 @01:09PM (#19273484)

On the other hand I have worked on code bases in the 50M lines of code that would bring VS on its knees; people ended up just using it as a glorified text editor.

Note I'm not knocking down on IDEs; as an Emacs user I would love reliable semantic indexing and navigation, but all the solutions that I have tried (rtags was the best) consume a lot of time and CPU indexing and switching branches often forces a rebuild. Currently, on a 1M lines code base I get around with projectile (which uses the project git as a file index) for file discovery and ag for brute force search, which at least on linux can search the codebase quickly.

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Re:How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the term... by green7ea on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:06PM (#19275203)

I have nearly the same setup you do but recently switched from ag to ripgrep (with deadgrep emacs plugin). It's a bit faster and allows filtering by files, etc. You may want to give a test

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Re:How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the term... by gpderetta on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:52PM (#19276157)

Thanks, I'll give e It a try!

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