Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by SkyPuncher on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:29PM (#23469261)

Unbelievably amazing to be able to shift-click on syntax and jump to the source - even works pretty well in dynamic languages.

I HATE using a Gem then needing to break my train of thought to pull up the official documentation to see what an API interface looks like. Ctrl+click. In and out in 15 seconds.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by kortex on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:58PM (#23471885)

You just taught me something! I've been using keyboard hotkeys to jump to source. On mac, I can hold down command (probably ctrl on linux) and it lights up like a link, shows the gist, and let's me click to go to source.

This is why I love these sorts of threads :)

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by abhijat on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:22AM (#23473887)

Ctrl-B also goes to definition (at least on Linux) if you don't want to leave the keyboard. On definition Ctrl-B lists all usages of the term under caret.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by mekster on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:02AM (#23474112)

After a while, you'd think why this isn't the default in other editors. (At least VSCode jumps to obvious sources.)

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