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by MikeMakesIt 5602 days ago
Surely you don't get the same level of organisation (particularly hierarchical) by having everything in one file? And doesn't that mean you are constantly scanning up and down the file?
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Actually the content of my one big file is made of "sections" (I wrote a tool to extract them, http://simpliwiki.com/sections.html)

"Search" is my friend to move around in my one big file.

I think of it like a the same shift introduced by Google Mail with their "label" thing. At the time it was quite disturbing, we used to classify mails in hierarchical directories. Nowadays, when I want to retrieve a msg, do I navigate a directory structure? No. I just "search".

Same for source code.