Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:10:41 -0700 From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG> To: Kevin Brunelle <kruptos@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel editing tools. Message-ID: <200102080110.f181Afn03745@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:25:42 EST." <3A81E786.25B66250@netzero.net>
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In message <3A81E786.25B66250@netzero.net>, kruptos@netzero.net writes: >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? Sure - vi. Among other things, the movement keys are on your touch typing homerow, it plays nice with ctags(1), /^function_name works great, and the regex based search and replace is real useful. >Surely you aren't all hacking away on vi or the *other* editor. Reasonable arguments can be made for emacs too. -- <a href="http://www.poohsticks.org/drew/">Home Page</a> For those who do, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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