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The Curious Schemer
Personal blog · rayfd.wordpress.comprogrammingwriting
The Curious Schemer is a personal blog at rayfd.wordpress.com about programming and writing. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its coverage of lesser-known Eclipse navigation features. It was cited in a thread about using text editors versus IDEs for editing files.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
Most-linked posts?
- Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-26
What Hacker News says?
It's interesting that Eclipse isn't even on the radar for a lot of developers (especially for Mac users, Textmate being the holy grail of IDEs). It's a solid, platform-independent IDE, completely open source, with thousands of man-hours behind it and lots of language-specific plugins. Regarding file navigation, http://rayfd.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/10-eclipse-navigation-... covers a lot of the lesser known but power…
Comment linking /2007/05/20/10-eclipse-navigation-shortcuts-every-java-programmer-should-know/
on “Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?”Submitted Y Combinator for Dysfunctional Non-Schemers as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted But It Works On My Machine… as a story · 1 points
HN discussion