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xkriva11yesterday at 8:44 AM2 repliesview on HN

From a conceptual point of view, browsing code is like browsing a fractal. Tools must take this into account.


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rwmjyesterday at 9:49 AM

Also it'd be nice to have something that is more spatial. A famous memory technique is remembering where things are in space[1], but I've never seen a code browser that works spatially. (I have no idea how to actually do this.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

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paddybyersyesterday at 3:14 PM

Who remembers the Occam folding editor (1983)? This was the first time I saw this kind of outline-based navigation for code: https://www.transputer.net/tn/03/tn03.html#x1-30002

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