It is a long, long, time since I've thrown one of these into the
maelstrom of our musings.
(have the nightmares receded?)
Do you make use of your IDE's expansionist tendencies, and if-so, which
ones?
NB this is where vi/emacs enthusiasts start chuckling (polite term for
'insane cackling'). Hence the question's limitation to IDEs, cf 'editors'!
Also: I'm talking 'PyCharm' because of the story, but others use Codium,
Sublime Text, etc - which presumably offer equivalent features.
Was helping a friend install PyCharm. Jumped into the Settings. Isn't it
incredible how many there are?
Idly noted that there are two short-cut or macro-expansion types of
facilities:
- Postfix Completion, (nothing to do with email or polish notation) and
- Live Templates (again, we're not talking about jinja2)
With both, one types an abbreviated-name and the IDE will expand it into
appropriate code. For (LiveTemplate) example, typing compli and pressing
Tab induces PyCharm to add the following to the program[me]:
[ ! for ! in !drop-down menu! if ! ]
It offers further typo-saving through the drop-down menu which lists a
bunch of likely (iterable) candidates from amongst previously-written
code. The action continues after selecting from the menu, by inviting
completion of the other ("!") placeholders, in-turn.
I haven't made use of such a tool, to-date - OK, yes, I have practised a
high typing-speed (and accuracy). Puff, puff...
Also, at the time, I'm thinking in 'code', rather than about what tool
might implement said ideas.
Do you make use of such expansionist-tendencies?
Do you make use of other powerful features within the IDE, or are its
editor functionalities employed at pretty-much the NotePad level?
Web.Refs:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/settings-postfix-completion.html
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/using-live-templates.html#live_templates_types
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