Re: developers developers developers

2009-11-12 Thread demery
> As does M-x grep RET in Emacs. And it's variants like M-x grep-find RET > and similar. But Emacs can also navigate using tags tables, which is > more direct and makes it easier to find definitions. XCode keeps a table of symbols for all compiled files in the project, users can select the test

Re: developers developers developers

2009-11-12 Thread demery
> Why do you think 99% of MS Word users are aware of only 1% of its > features? Autocad might be a better point of comparison. As to Word, I have been responsible for informal teaching of its use in computer labs, with clients that were on deadlines, many of whom had no patience to learn things

Re: developers developers developers

2009-11-12 Thread demery
> >> I'm talking about developer tools. For example, some months ago I >> got the advice to use "grep" to browse LilyPond source code. > > BTW, have you found something better? for those working on a mac, XCode and BBEdit have grep-like facilities as well as project-wide search capabilities that