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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:38:20 -0500
From:      Arindum Mukerji <rmukerji@execpc.com>
To:        Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: finding source to functions
Message-ID:  <20000930143820.A18501@earth.execpc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009291637130.17580-100000@Gloria.CAM.ORG>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009291637130.17580-100000@Gloria.CAM.ORG>

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* Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG> [000929 15:37]:
> How can I find the source to specific functions in /usr/src/sys? I tried
> running ctags (find /usr/src/sys/ -type f -print | xargs ctags -w), but it
> dumps core because it can't accept so many args. I then tried creating a
> tags file for each subdirectory like so:
> for i in /usr/src/sys/
> do
>   if test -d $i
>   then
>     cd $i
>     find ./ -type f -print | xargs ctags -w
>     cd ..
>   fi
> done
> 
> But that didn't work either. Any suggestions to make browsing the source
> code easier?
> 

The ctags utility that comes with vim (http://www.vim.org/) accepts an
argument of "-R" for recursive ctag-ing. I find it most useful in 
indexing my tree.

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