From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 13 23:34:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCC616A4DF for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:34:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B0743D45 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:34:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8D3F09BDA7; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:04:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:04:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "S.Mohideen" Message-ID: <20060813233456.GE63783@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <44DED712.1060809@switch.net.in> <20060813082839.GC63783@wantadilla.lemis.com> <44DF4855.3050105@switch.net.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44DF4855.3050105@switch.net.in> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source Code Navigation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:34:58 -0000 --19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Upside-down reply, gratuitous empty lines removed. On Sunday, 13 August 2006 at 15:42:13 +0000, S.Mohideen wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 13 August 2006 at 7:38:58 +0000, S.Mohideen wrote: >>> What tools your people use apart from CTAGS/cscope to navigate >>> vast source code base. Im using ctags in gvim. Want to know any >>> better tool which you may be using. >> >> There's not really much choice. I'm currently playing with GNU global >> (http://www.gnu.org/software/global/, available in >> /usr/ports/devel/global), which so far seems to be a little better >> than etags; I don't use ctags. >> >> http://www.lemis.com/grog/software/source-code-navigation.html has >> some somewhat out-of-date info on the subject. > > May be a foolish question to ask. What editor gvim/emacs plays > well with global based upon your experience. Emacs. But that's my experience. global is supposed to be independent of editors, and it also has a command-line interface. You would have seen this if you had followed the links I gave. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE37cgIubykFB6QiMRAl5zAJ91l/8j32ozQWglknjLOlRJAlwB6gCfTg0I EKNB0p21mh00S61KjDdOvTI= =Q98r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1--