On: Literate programming is much more than just commenting code

[krageon]

> You will be shocked to know that emacs and org-mode can do exactly this. You can tangle source, and go from the tangled source back to the section that generated that source.

If you actually use noweb and desire autocompletion or type reminders (or really anything an IDE does), then functionally it cannot. Literate programming (and noweb) is great for configs, but as set up it simply doesn't work right for real programming.

[taeric → krageon]

Orgmode can get you these things. Since the tangled source is full source, you will just have to index the tangled code and detangle after edits.

So, yes. The outline code will be less prone to this. But this is no different than the architecture document being ignored by the ide.

[ParetoOptimal → krageon]

> If you actually use noweb and desire autocompletion or type reminders (or really anything an IDE does), then functionally it cannot.

dabbrev completes noweb-ref names and you can automate this with yasnippet.