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Project indexing

Aleksandr Makov 13 years ago updated by Tim Johnston 12 years ago 12

The most of advanced code editors (IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, etc...) index a full project structure giving us abilities to:

- go to a file where declaration of current variable, constant or other entity is declared  Goto Declaration 
- include variables and/or files at certain points of code by auto-completing the variables/entities/filenames with paths  Project-Wide Auto Completion 
- all other advantages of project indexing go here...

And it could be optional so that "Goto Declaration" and "Project-Wide Auto Completion" can look within indices, within files by performing standard search, or be completely turned off.

Vote if you find it useful.
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It would be nice to navigate to function/method declaration by holding Cmd+Left mouseclick on a function name, like in Netbeans
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Although adding this feature will make sublime less 'lightweight', not having this is a deal breaker for large commercial projects. I was really excited about this editor until I realized this feature is not available.
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I would LOVE for this to be implemented. I just use Ctrl+R to see a list of all functions in a given file, but being able to navigate to the declaration would be a major plus. I have developers here unwilling to move to ST2 because of that one feature not being available. This request definitely gets my vote.
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I also find myself unwilling to switch to sublime text 2 from my current eclipse+pydev setup due to the lack of this feature.
I have recently discovered the SublimeCodeIntel plugin which provides a basic level of project indexing, project-wide auto completion, and "goto declaration" functionality. Works great. https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel/blob/master/README.rst

I also highly recommend the SublimeLinter plugin which provides realtime code error analysis like many of the full fledged IDEs. https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeLinter/blob/master/README.rst
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CodeIntel autocomplete works very well, I was impressed with it, however it lacks the single feature that keeps me using eclipse.

I want to press CTRL+R (@<search> syntax), start typing a name of a function/class and have it take me to that file at the declaration point.

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I'd love to have this, but would dislike it being in sublime itself, as opposed to a plugin, unless it was super quick. Sublime is fantastic being lightweight, and I'd hate it to get bloated, otherwise it will just end up like Komodo, Netbeans or Eclipse.
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Yes, I'd like to see it as a plugin only.
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I agree it makes sense to modularize the app such that people can install/use only those components they need, instead of bogging the whole thing down into a monolithic behemoth. But, I think sublime needs a better built in package tool that will fetch lists of available plugin and install/remove them with a single click. Take a look at NuGet for VS to see a good example.
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There is a "package control" plugin, but it is not obvious how to use it.

The tutorial below mentions how to install and use it

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-text-2-tips-and-tricks/
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A unified plugin to handle C/C++ as well as the languages that  SublimeCodeIntel  handles would be nice.

Another useful plugin is the CTags plugin.  It requires a lengthy tag generation cycle (particularly if the code resides on a network share.)  But, once generated, navigating the C code is quick.  It is in the package manager.  More info here:

https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags 

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Features like this are best left to plugins. In my darker moments I want stuff like this, but then I remember that it makes me a lazy programmer, and it adds bloat to an otherwise, err...sublime...tool.


I don't want sublimetext to ever tell me how my code works, because
A) it doesn't know

B) I should be able to figure that out, or else what the hell am I doing?


On the other hand, I want to be able to run this program everywhere I need to, which means not having it manage gigantic amounts of superfluous information.