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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > IDE Of Choice
 
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Bonfire Lit
Jul 9, 2008

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enthe0s posted:

So I'm starting out with Visual Studio for the 1st time and I'm wondering if anyone can give me a good reason as to why the comment/uncomment hotkeys are so idiotic. I'm coming over from SublimeText where 'Ctrl + /' either comments/uncomments based on whether or not the currently selected lines are commented or not. In VS, you have to start a "chord sequence" with 'Ctrl + E', and then if you follow that up with 'C', it will comment out the currently selected lines, but if you follow up with 'U', it will uncomment them instead.

Why did anyone think this is a good idea?
My best guess is that they only wanted to use letters for shortcuts because depending on the keyboard layout, you might have to use a modifier to type other chars (for example, you have to hold shift to type numbers on AZERTY, and / is shift-7 on QWERTZ), and they ran out of letters so they had to use chords.

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Bonfire Lit
Jul 9, 2008

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v1nce posted:

If anyone missed it, the EAP for JetBrains CLion (C/C++) came out in September.

Has anyone used it for anything non-trivial yet?
It's nice, but I'm seeing some problems where it stops highlighting and pegs a core on several preprocessor macros from a Boost library.

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