Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Re: vim suitable for professional software development?

Hey,

thanks a lot for the explanation.

regards

Am 24.08.2015 15:00 schrieb Stefan Klein:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-08-24 14:33 GMT+02:00 <taschentuch@posteo.de>:
>
>> You've said " Vim plugins will never be as complete as Eclipse (eg
>> refactoring)." Could you elaborate that point, please?
>
> Eclipse "understands" the java code you write.
> That is, if you have 2 variables "i" in different context, Eclipse
> know these are 2 different variables that just happend to be named the
> same.
> Also Eclipse knows or can find all places where "i" (but not the other
> "i") is used.
> So it's very easy to say 'eclipse, please rename "i" to "j"' and
> eclipse will do so, it will find all places where this exact "i" (and
> not the other "i") is used.
>
> This would require to implement at least a partial java compiler as a
> vim plugin, so it is not practical.
> (eclipse in fact implements a java compiler)
>
> A pure editor is limited to find all places where the text "i" is
> used, so it would find the 2nd complete different "i" too.
>
> regards,
> Stefan
>
> P.S.: +1 on "use what my (potential) colleagues use"
>
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