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qu4z-2 on Oct 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week

I'm so confused. Vim has ctags, and it works, across multiple files.

Granted I don't think vim is an IDE, but you'd demonstrate that better by pointing to the IDE stuff it doesn't do (like debugging, I think, but I debug with printf and only rarely fire up gdb so for all I know it does support it).

pjmlp on Oct 15, 2022 [–]

Op thinks it is one,

> Vim defaults to being a C IDE, no plugins required

qu4z-2 on Oct 16, 2022 | [–]

Right, but ctags isn't the reason it's not. Ctags just works and goes substantially above and beyond what you'd expect of "Just a text editor".

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