Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

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On 2023-03-17 17:55, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 3/17/2023 1:13 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
>> Oops! I meant to send this to the group not just Dave.
>> 
>> 
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>> On 16/03/2023 22:55, dn via Python-list wrote:
>> 
>>> Do you make use of your IDE's expansionist tendencies, and if-so, which
>>> ones?
>> 
>> When I'm writing Java/C++/C# yes, I need all the IDE help I can get.
>> Netbeans or Eclipse being my tools of choice. And in my Windows days
>> I used Delphi and Smalltalk/V which both pretty much only exist within
>> their own IDEs and I used their features extensively.
> 
> Back when Delphi first came out, when I first used it, I don't remember
> any IDE; one just used a text editor.
> 
I used Turbo Pascal and then Delphi 3 or 4, back when it was still Borland.

>> When writing Python I use IDLE, or vim for bigger jobs.
>> IDLE does have some suggestions and auto tricks but I don't
>> always use them. In vim I use auto-indent and that's about it.
>>