Ask HN: Should we have a Thesaurus in the IDE?

2 pointsmarpalmin2 comments

While programming/designing I find myself looking for more accurate words to describe concepts, variables, classes, functions, etc.

Do you think it would be a good idea to have a thesaurus in the IDE? Somebody know of an implementation of this idea?

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I personally develop on a mac and I always have the Dictionary app opened on the thesaurus tab. In my case I use several Editor or IDE: XCode for iOS development, Eclipse for android development, Emacs for C++ development... the Dictionary app is for me the best approach.

Just out of curiosity. Do you know of any IDE with an Embedded thesaurus, in MS Word style?

I know that you can do it in vim for example.

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