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13 :: idetools

• adrianveith (orginal) [2012-05-25T18:01:27+02:00] view original

  second question:

  I found that there is the command idetools, but I couldn't find an example and had no luck to get it working. I tried:

  nimrod idetools --track:test1.nim,17,5 --def test1.nim

  I am using nimrod from git

  It would be great if this could work - are there any IDEs out there which support this ?

  Best,

  Adrian

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• dom96 (orginal) [2012-05-25T22:13:57+02:00] view original

  Currently idetools is kind of buggy. I have used it for my Nimrod IDE; Aporia, it kind of works, but currently it's more of an annoyance than it is help. Me and Araq have plans on expanding it though, one thing we are planning is to implement a way to launch idetools as a long-running process because the overhead of executing nimrod idetools ... is too great.

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• adrianveith (orginal) [2012-05-27T09:47:39+02:00] view original

  I have downloaded Aporia and it works so far, but there is a long way for it to be a full featured IDE. Why not use one of the existing IDEs like MonoDevelop ?

  The idea for running nimrod idetools as a service is good. Haxe does this already, and it helps where a lot of macro code is involved, because the service only recompiles only changed modules.

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• dom96 (orginal) [2012-05-27T13:21:40+02:00] view original

  I have downloaded Aporia and it works so far, but there is a long way for it to be a full featured IDE. Why not use one of the existing IDEs like MonoDevelop ?

  It's nice having an IDE written in Nimrod; in some ways it demonstrates that Nimrod can be used to write GUI applications, and I can't say I'm too fond of MonoDevelop.

  I do agree however that Aporia is still a long way away from being an IDE, it's more of a text editor right now. Before it I used gedit so in comparison to gedit it's a very good substitute.

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• leledumbo (orginal) [2012-05-27T19:45:45+02:00] view original

  Why not use one of the existing IDEs like MonoDevelop ?

  Because IMHO it would make the already bloated IDE becomes even more bloated. Language specific IDE can provide everything that the language needs, in a more reasonable size (in terms of both disk and memory) and speed. Plus, it shows Nimrod's power.

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• exhu (orginal) [2012-06-26T11:07:08+02:00] view original

  It seems only '--suggest' option works, doesn't it? A very desirable option would be "find definition of _identifier" or "find variants of function/method _identifier".

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