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by tajen 3309 days ago
Visual Basic / Excel VBA does that, and I thought it was the way to go until 18yo. But when you can only see one function/event handler at a time, you lose the understanding of how programming works. If only I had been exposed to plain-text programming (Maven + .java) instead of using Windows/visual editors for years...
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Old-school VB actually shows you all your code (sorry, best video I could find quickly: https://youtu.be/zmyZCmX2LWQ?t=2m21s). They were aware of the issue you raised, having tried separate-function editing as far back as QuickBasic for DOS.

The usability engineering of old-school VB (of which VBA is the modern representative) was frankly top-notch, and I feel no shame following their footsteps in the https://anvil.works code editor.