From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 16:31:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E9537B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f180VBD08892; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:31:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:31:11 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kevin Brunelle Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel editing tools. Message-ID: <20010207163110.Y26076@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010207150843.R26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010207153513.U26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A81E786.25B66250@netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A81E786.25B66250@netzero.net>; from kruptos@netzero.net on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:25:42PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's bad form to use "reply" when starting a new thread, people with normal mailers see your message as part of a thread that it's not related to. * Kevin Brunelle [010207 16:25] wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Sorry if you have heard this before, or if it is annoying. I just can't > seem to find any information on this. > > I have been poking around my kernel for quite some time now, and I have > been doing it with various text editors and programs of that nature. It > suddenly occured to me that there might be a better way to go about > this. So I ask you, are there any programs that make reading and editing > the kernel sources any easier? I was thinking about possibly writing a > utility to do something like this, if one cannot be found. I don't > pretend to be super skilled; I just want some honest advice. Surely you > aren't all hacking away on vi or the *other* editor. vim actually. > > Well, thanks in advance for any help you can offer. hmm, some use ctags or cscope, I don't. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message