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phaer on July 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: QuickJS JavaScript Engine

Some editors, like Emacs, make it very easy to work with one huge file, because you can have multiple independent views ("windows" in Emacs parlance) into the same file. It is - or maybe has been - quite common to work like this in LISP communities.

Arelius on July 11, 2019 [–]

Yes.

As an Emacs programmer, I much prefer working in one 10kloc file than 20 500loc files. The later I find pretty overwhelming.

Keyframe on July 11, 2019 | [–]

To bring some balance to the universe - as a vim user, I tend to prefer doing the same.

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