{"id":19,"date":"2003-05-21T18:58:23","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/21\/visual-assist\/"},"modified":"2003-05-21T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2003-05-21T17:58:23","slug":"visual-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/21\/visual-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Assist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I play with lots of different languages, work is a C++ shop.  Until recently, I&#8217;ve used a combination of DevStudio (for code writing and debugging) and emacs (for oo-browser, pcvs and ediff).  A few days ago I downloaded the eval of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\">Visual Assist<\/a> and I&#8217;m amazed that I&#8217;ve been without it for so long.  Actually, I think I tried a very early version once and wasn&#8217;t impressed.<\/p>\n<p>It basically does auto-completion and tool-tip API hints <i>reliably<\/i>, which is more than can be said for DevStudio.  This means you spend more time editing code, and less time flicking through API documentation &#8211; a very good thing.  They have a decent parsing engine in there too, so they can do &#8220;find next\/prev usage of symbol&#8221; too.   I&#8217;ve now written my own DevStudio addin which uses this feature to provide a &#8220;rename local variable&#8221; refactoring.<\/p>\n<p>It would be very sweet if they were to expose an API to their symbol database.  I could do so much with it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xoreax.com\/main.htm\">Incredibuild<\/a> was my other find recently.  It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/distcc.samba.org\/\">distcc<\/a> for DevStudio, and again it works well.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/anthonybailey\/3876.html\">Anthony<\/a> has already blogged about how we use it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squeak.org\">Squeak 3.5<\/a> has been released, so I&#8217;ll be looking at the improvements sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I play with lots of different languages, work is a C++ shop. Until recently, I&#8217;ve used a combination of DevStudio (for code writing and debugging) and emacs (for oo-browser, pcvs and ediff). A few days ago I downloaded the eval of Visual Assist and I&#8217;m amazed that I&#8217;ve been without it for so long. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}