Re: [xml-dev] Should one adopt the tag naming convention of anexisting XML vocabulary or create one's own tag naming convention?
From: Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com>
To: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:00:05 +0000
Probably the only consistent selection across all tools would be for CamelCase.. underscore and minus would give different results across different tools.
I like to use Textpad because it can select content in vertical rectangle by holding down alt.. this would be a good feature across tools from a developer point of view. Also had regex find and replace which is a developer must. I often use it to get at some particular data quickly. It selects two words separated by underscore but not by -
RegexBuddy makes doing anything with regex very fast and efficient and shortens a lot of my days and works the same way as Textpad so probably a standard of sorts
Oxygen selects two separate words by clicking on the - itself is that an xml specific thing across xml editors?
Find, Replacement, copy and paste are key in a developers tool set. Might as well write your stuff with _ is my reflection from the insight on this post given a more efficient developer is better and - gives you little to no more readability over _ and good tools just don't work the way you might want.
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote:
Well then, as others have pointed out, you need to use better tools. It's not something I know about because it's not a problem I've ever had, but if I did, I'd certainly blame my tools, not the vocabulary design.
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