[Tutor] What editor tools (plugins/extensions) would you consider essential for efficient Python development?

[Alan Gauld]

On 12/11/2019 07:15, DL Neil via Tutor wrote:

>>>   >>    11)  "Fuzzy" searching plugins.
>>> ? which do what
>>
>> Apparently you type _something_ into the search area and it will look
>> for _something_ in a variety of places:  file names, contents of
>> files, contents of your open buffers, etc.
> 
> Ah yes, when I first discovered this, I was SO pleased! The ability to 
> search within all open files, within all the files of a project was 
> revolutionary over the original 'within a single file' limitation.

Hasn't this been a feature of vi since its origins - possibly even a
feature of ex, before vi even existed? You just run a grep command
then step through the results visiting each line in turn. Or am I
missing something?

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