New beta plugins: Tags and JMonkey
Submitted by Wednesday, 17 October, 2001 - 12:37
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The Tags plugin, created by Kenrick Drew, allows you to jump to the definition of a specific language object or "tag" using tag index files. The index files are created by the
The author of JMonkey, Ashley Williams, describes this new plugin as follows:
ctags
program available for both Windows and UNIX-based systems. You can obtain a robust version of ctags from the Exuberant C Tags project site.
The author of JMonkey, Ashley Williams, describes this new plugin as follows:
The JMonkey plugin is a collection of file system helpers, known as JMonkeys. There are currently two JMonkeys available:Give these new plugins a try and provide some feedback. Thanks to both Ken and Ashley for their contributions.
1. Find Class Monkey. This is very similar to the JBuilder browse feature as it allows you to navigate to the class either under the cursor or as specified in a popup.
2. New Class Monkey. This allows you to create new packages and files by typing the name in a popup using a very simple syntax.
Since JMonkey is purely file system based, it isn't as precise as a system that uses a full-on object graph - but it is very fast and flexible and meets 99% of my needs.