Oxygen Basic

Information => Open Forum => Topic started by: kryton9 on May 12, 2012, 07:58:06 PM

Title: Interesting ideas for future IDE for Oxygen
Post by: kryton9 on May 12, 2012, 07:58:06 PM

Charles, I was reading about developing for Android via command line tools instead of using eclipse, just out of curiosity. Anyways, one of the pages mentioned what I am pasting next. I thought interesting that there is such a tool. Maybe you could incorporate it into future IDE.

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Ctags for Autocompletion

Install exhuberant-ctags and run ctags -R src gen in the root of your project to generate a tags file that many editors will automatically use for autocompletion.
Further automation

I'm planning on eventually writing a script that uses inotify (inotifywait -m -r) to watch for source code changes and automatically rebuild and re-scan the code with ctags. (Although I'm not sure if editors will detect changes to the tags file on the fly... must research that.)

Here is more info:
http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ctags.html

Title: Re: Interesting ideas for future IDE for Oxygen
Post by: Charles Pegge on May 12, 2012, 11:12:26 PM

Thanks Kent.

Yes that sounds very useful. I have plans to be able to track any word in a source file and see what it does, and use it for hyperlinking to any other project file. I wrote an editor with this facility in the '90s (working in DOS ) and it was very effective.

Charles

Title: Re: Interesting ideas for future IDE for Oxygen
Post by: kryton9 on May 13, 2012, 09:56:05 AM

There is still a lot that could be done to improve IDE's.  I always think about Star Trek Next Generation and programming on there. To be able to code fixes on the fly in emergency situations of such a complex system and how one could work quickly, then it helps give good ideas. We have a long way to go.