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szabba on Sept 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Strategies to quickly become productive in an unfa...

With Vim and Emacs you can get this if you have a plugin that autogenerates a ctags/etags file. Then (in Vim) just <C-]> to an identifiers definition and <C-o> back.

phpnode on Sept 3, 2014 [–]

for many languages ctags doesn't come close unfortunately, for code exploration a good IDE is essential. Even if you don't use it for actual editing.

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