From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 30 20:25:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ganja.nubisci.net (ikhala.tcimet.net [198.109.166.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C246637B503 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 20:25:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dervish@localhost) by ganja.nubisci.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e913POY01531; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:25:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dervish) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:25:24 -0400 From: bush doctor To: Nat Lanza Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finding source to functions Message-ID: <20000930232524.A549@nubisci.net> Mail-Followup-To: Nat Lanza , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000930143820.A18501@earth.execpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from magus@cs.cmu.edu on Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:40:03PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.nubisci.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of da blue Nat Lanza aka (magus@cs.cmu.edu) said: > Arindum Mukerji writes: > > > 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. > > I tend to feed my tree to LXR, which has a nice function search, along > with a wrapper for glimpse and some reasonable source browsing. I have > my own hacked version, but the original code can be found at > http://lxr.linux.no. It was written to index the Linux kernel, but > works pretty well for the BSD kernel as well. If anyone wants, I could > clean up what I have and produce a patch. > > If you want to take a look, my version is running at > http://lxr.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/freebsd/source/. Nicely done :). I also installed lxr on my box. I also ran global. I found them both to be excellent tools, however I begining to lean towards cscope+cbrowser. The main advantage is that you don't need to have apache running ... > > > --nat > > -- > nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs > magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ > there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead > #;^) -- So ya want ta hear da roots? bush doctor Of course I run FreeBSD!! http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message