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0 pointsedg50002y ago0 comments

It helps if you can get your IDE's indexer configured, so that you find refererences to functions and variables reliably.

More importantly is to use an IDE with a good fast global search function and get comfortable with it. At least for me, 99% of navigating a large codebase is global search.

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missingdays2y ago

Or use an ide that doesn't need indexed configured and just works

bonniesimon2y ago

Is there a way to get vscode to this level.

edg5000OP2y ago

For C++, I use clangd (works fine for GCC projects). The only config it needs is the path to compile_commands.json, which can be automatically generated by CMake and some other build systems. For TypeScript no config is needed. For Java there is the redhad Java plugin in VS which provides good indexing.

vidyesh2y ago

Not using VSCode currently but I think pretty much yes.

You can goto or peek definition in VSCode. And the find tool has the option to find all occurrences throughout your project.

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