Ctags

Xcode has Vim emulation plugins, but you can get by quite nicely with Vim and xcodebuild. If you want better code navigation, however, what do you do? Colin Drake has written an article about using ctags for iOS development:

With implementation files, header files, and…

This week I tried out Visual Studio Code (VSCode), a new editor from Microsoft that has features focused on web development. One of the cool things about it is it brings IntelliSense to JavaScript developers, and it’s cross platform as well — it supports Mac OS X, Linux, and…

Two weeks ago I wrote a Vim 101 on tags, which introduced the basics for working with Vim’s tag navigation tools. Something that I hinted at was using tags to help visualise a project’s structure. Although Vim’s raw editing operations are incredibly powerful, some of us need help in trying to…

Continuing on from last week’s Vim 101 on tags, another useful element to a tag-based workflow is the preview window (:help preview-window). There's only ever one preview window per tab page, and it can be used to display tag definitions without interruption.

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Ozzy.vim

Ozzy.vim (License: MIT) by Giacomo Comitti allows files to be opened quickly and easily. An algorithm is used to determine which…