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Re:Rewriting a large production system in Go (2013) by philsnow on Sunday April 26, 2015 @01:51PM (#9442585)
> If I could get out of the 1970s and use an editor other than vi, maybe I would get some help from an IDE in this regard, but I staunchly refuse to edit code with any tool that requires using a mouse.

Ob"Fallacy of the excluded middle": you can get this kind of contextual information in emacs pretty easily.

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Re:Rewriting a large production system in Go (2013) by Dewie2 on Sunday April 26, 2015 @03:00PM (#9442862)
> > , but I staunchly refuse to edit code with any tool that requires using a mouse.

Like Acme.

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Re:Rewriting a large production system in Go (2013) by pekk on Sunday April 26, 2015 @02:04PM (#9442643)
For that matter, vi is much less capable than vim, for which plugins are available.
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