While the above is funny, using a good editor, and using it effectively, usually prevents such situations. A good auto-completing editor isn’t necessarily to help one type faster – it is most helpful for the context sensitive documentation that it provides. It brings documentation closer to the act of writing code, and saves the context switch introduced due to Alt+Tab, F1 or any other documentation invoking key-binding.
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If you haven’t found out how to make your editor do this, you probably should.
Make your editor help you
While the above is funny, using a good editor, and using it effectively, usually prevents such situations. A good auto-completing editor isn’t necessarily to help one type faster – it is most helpful for the context sensitive documentation that it provides. It brings documentation closer to the act of writing code, and saves the context switch introduced due to Alt+Tab, F1 or any other documentation invoking key-binding.
Like so -
If you haven’t found out how to make your editor do this, you probably should.