Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?

Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by pjc50 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @05:31AM (#42501008)

> For my personal side project hobby work it's all in one file.

Ok, so this is work, but:

    find . -name '*.cs' -type f -print0 | wc --files0-from=-
    1035617 3438912 47446211 total

Not many editors are comfortable with a million line document that's 47MB. And that doesn't include generated code (which I very rarely need to look at, but is right there under F12 if I do)

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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by emj on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:03AM (#42501380)

A 100G file was ok in those editors even with syntax highlighting. That is an extreme because saving did take some time but there are ways to optimize for that would it ever become popular. IMHO 640K per file is enough for everybody.

  dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=100k| tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9\n' | fold -w 130 > largefile.c

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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by teddyh on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:09PM (#42505908)

For Emacs, there’s a package for editing very large files: <http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/vlf.html>

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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by samsquire on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:29AM (#42501234)

We need tools that process command line output and large files and create tables of contents dynamically based on rules of architecture or comments and allow efficient navigation. I need overlapping buckets or tags.

I've been thinking about it lately but what I've seen in IDEs is not what I want

I liked OpenGrok

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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by WillAdams on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:26AM (#42502485)

Are you willing to do that by hand? Have you heard of the author of _The Art of Computer Programming_ and the technique he created: Literate Programming?

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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by zahlman on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:36AM (#42501265)

Thanks for the hint about `--files0-from`, BTW. I thought I needed `xargs` for this.

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