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Re:On navigating a large codebase by fraculus on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:49AM (#26131216)
I agree that things like "Go To Definition" can be pretty bad (especially when a codebase has code that is auto-generated, but you haven't figured out how yet).

But I'm curious, what benefits do you see in your approach over just doing a grep in the folder (or e.g. Ctrl+Shift+F "Find in Files" in Pycharm)?

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Re:On navigating a large codebase by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:36AM (#26131489)
grep type approaches are really good when part of your application is generated as SQL strings to make tables (which is a pathology sadly common in most data science codebases).
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