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Compile option #12

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briannesbitt opened this issue Jan 23, 2012 · 3 comments
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Compile option #12

briannesbitt opened this issue Jan 23, 2012 · 3 comments

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@briannesbitt
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In the listing if there is no js file provide an option to compile it, compile all, start/stop watch and compile - could be a nice and simple interface to the command line?!? (not that its currently that hard)

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showell commented Jan 23, 2012

@briannesbitt @mark-hahn Brian, this raises the same challenges as your other ticket--folks have many different ways of organizing their directory structures, so it would be a bit tricky to automate everything correctly from my tool, without essentially reinventing the wheel.

My philosophy is that the tool should do one thing really well, which is show files side by side, and then hopefully it plays nice with the rest of the programmer's workflow. My typical workflow has these pieces:

  1. Code editor.
  2. Terminal window where I'm running a command like find . -name '*.coffee' | xargs coffee -wc
  3. Terminal window for launching CoffeeScriptLineMatcher
  4. Browser window for viewing CoffeeScriptLineMatcher
  5. Browser window for testing app (if it's browser based) or terminal window for testing app (if it's console based)

I know that's a lot of moving parts, but it works for me.

Copying @mark-hahn, who requested somewhat similar features on the mailing list. I'll keep this issue open for a bit. It wasn't my original vision to make this tool a full-blown automation solution, but I can certainly see the argument for more one-stop shopping.

The issue below is somewhat related:

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@briannesbitt
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I see your point and while my first instinct is to just click compile right there, I think I agree with you that (at least for now) the tool should provide help in matching the sources.

@showell
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showell commented Jan 23, 2012

Ok, closing the issue for now, but this is good feedback, and I'll reopen as needed.

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