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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book?
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 22:36:35 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 26 May 2015 17:21:32 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:

> This is a more precise operation than a global
> search-and-replace, because the IDE can distinguish one `x' from
> another: If I rename one of my instance fields from `x' to
> `columnIndex', the IDE won't mess up the references to `x' in some other
> class like java.awt.Point.
> 
I normally use microEmacs, which can do almost that:

me org/gregorie/newproject/*.java

Then tell it once only what I want it to replace and what with just once 
and it works through all the files. I've never discovered a limit to the 
number of files it can load. As a bonus the search term can be a regex.

>      All in all, though, I find an IDE more helpful than hindering,
> and am (usually) glad to have it.  If you haven't tried one recently,
> you may find their "capabilities, if any" have improved since last you
> looked.
>
Since I also write a lot of C and lesser amounts of bash and gawk, I 
suspect I'd be stuck with Eclipse since I really wouldn't want to learn a 
different IDE for each language. the other thing I didn't much like about 
any of the IDEs I've used is the necessity to use the mouse frequently, 
which I find slows me down a lot, while working the way I do, I don't 
need to touch it unless I need to switch console windows and, when it 
comes to repeating one or more commands, scrolling/searching up with bash 
and then hitting RETURN is faster and less of an interruption than having 
to grab a mouse. But, as I said, its just another case of horses for 
courses.


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