Automagic Musings » zoom http://hewo.xedoloh.com I know code fu. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:19:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Code Mountain http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2007/11/code-mountain/ http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2007/11/code-mountain/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:07:26 +0000 wbic16 http://hewo.xedoloh.com/?p=12 Continue reading →]]> I came up with an idea this afternoon for a source code visualizer for Enterprise solutions. Basically it would provide a source code cloud built from files and their dependencies. Each cloud would be a logical block (function, if-statement, loop, etc.) and the user would be able to zoom in/out to any level as needed. You would then work on an application as a whole rather than on a set of files. Everything would still be saved out to standard files, but the entire application would be accessible in a visual manner that wouldn’t require lots of commands to open and close said files.

Basically I want to be able to quickly move between parts of a project using the Mac OS X Expose feature, but without subjecting myself to Mac OS X. I also want seamless integration with VIM. CloudVIM if you will…

The app would also tie into another idea I had a while back: multi-history versioning for files.  Basically I want to be able to view the state of a file at any given point during my editing session, even if that means branching into multiple edit histories.  Combining these ideas into CloudVIM would allow a developer to easily navigate to any source code at any time within a specified timespan.  Coupled with SVN for storage this would provide a powerful debugging model I think.

We need a good use for 1TB hard disks anyway.

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