Re: I'm trying to learn Mono specifically to contribute to f-spot, advice?

["Michael Wayne Goodman" <goodman m w gmail com>]

I'm putting this reply on the f-spot list as well.  I hope you don't
mind, but others might find it useful.  (comments below)

On 3/18/07, Richard Bronosky <mythtv bronosky com> wrote:
> On 3/18/07, Michael Wayne Goodman <goodman m w gmail com> wrote:
> > Keep in mind that you don't need to use MonoDevelop to work with C#
> > and Mono code.  GEdit and Vim both have syntax highlighting for C#.
> > You could also try creating your own solution file.
> >
>
>  Awesome, I ended up editing the *.cs files from the tutorial in vim and
> compiling from the CLI already.  I feel like a total gimp when I can't use
> the vim wizardry I spent the last 2 years learning.  So I intended to so
> this already.
>
> My concern is more about the value of getting to see the relationship that
> all those source files have to the project as a whole.  Let's say I want to
> do something like work with the red-eye correction function so that it
> restores the zoom an scroll of your view port after the image refreshes.
> Without the IDE I don't know how to find the files that the relative code
> lives in.
>
> Is the solution simply to try to imagine words that would be in the code and
> grep for them?  That can't be best.

If you're using Vim you can create a tags file (see
http://ctags.sourceforge.net/), then when you hit a key command (eg.
ctrl-]) within Vim on a function name or whatever, it will take you to
the definition.  If the definition is in another file, it will open
that file in a new buffer.  If you are using GVim and would like it in
a tab instead of a buffer, use the command ":tab ball" and it will
open all buffers in new tabs.  Taglist might be another worthy
plugin/script for vim (http://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/).

As for searching for things that are not variables or
functions/methods.... well, I'm still using grep for that as well.  So
far it works pretty well though.

good luck!

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