Being greener

re: Being greener

L'ours qui code — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:25:47 GMT

i think that to "copy *all* of ITS content" may result in expensive quotes.

re: Being greener

Timothy Fries — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:28:48 GMT

>>when I need to delete a source file, I copy *all* of it's contents to my notepad buffer before deleting the file

Deleting a file? How wasteful! Best to store unneeded files in the Recycle Bin, that way if you find out you need to add any new files to your project, you can just pull one of the files out of there, clean out the contents of the file, then reuse your old file.

re: Being greener

casperOne — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:58:31 GMT

So you saved all the characters typed, and then typed in this long blog entry =)

Happy Belated Birthday!

re: Being greener

Jeff Parker — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:29:38 GMT

I tried the recycling characters thing before. It just didn't work it. it was far less efficient, I would burn more brain cells making sure I didn't introduce a typo. Once I did introduce a typo then a lot more resources were waisted debugging trying to find it. I think it has to do with how my brain is wired. as my brain is multicore. One core is thinking about the code I am writing and at the same time the other core is thinking about all the other code it will affect and how it will affect it and thinking about the next 20 lines at the same time.

However the reuse of the command window I fully support you on, you failed to mention though the importance command that can make your command prompts good as new every time. that command would be CLS.

re: Being greener

allen s — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:42:55 GMT

http://bluemars.org/clipx/

better than copy to notepad

re: Being greener

Miral — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:33:14 GMT

Now just think of the savings if you had used "i += 2;" instead :)

re: Being greener

JL — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:31:53 GMT

You forgot pressing the -> move cursor keys, which I assume is still faster than moving the mouse.

i+=2;

would have worked faster too :)

re: Being greener

Keith Nicholas — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:56:41 GMT

well, on a more serious note, you can actually be a lot greener with things like ViEmu Visual Assist and Resharper :)

amazing how satisfying it is to edit efficiently!