Re: [Help-smalltalk] Coding workflow

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/11/2011 05:22 PM, Anselm Strauss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what people's coding workflow looks like in GNU
> Smalltalk. I have used Squeak a lot and of course know about Eclipse and
> all this fancy stuff. There is visual gst but I was more interested in
> the good old vim/emacs way.
>
> - How to keep the overview over the code? Use folding in the editor? Use
> ctags to jump between files and lines? Is there something like an
> outline e.g. for all classes in a file?
>
> - How to look up documentation and external source code? Extract all
> star packages and generate the HTML documentation?

I usually use visualgst for browsing and keep it around even if I'm 
editing in vim/emacs.

> - How to debug? Is there an inspector during debugging?

It's not the best (no expression evaluation), but there is one if you 
load the MiniDebugger example in your image (gst -SK 
examples/MiniDebugger.st).

> - How to deal with namespaces? If they are defined in the package.xml of
> a star package, does this not break when I use the extracted code while
> developing.

You can use

   Smalltalk removeFeature: #X. PackageLoader fileInPackage: 'X'

to force reloading a package in an image (which includes going to the 
correct namespace).

Alternatively, you can set the current namespace in the REPL with 
"Namespace current: YourPackage" so that you can load files in the 
correct namespace.