From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 17:11: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (chopper.poohsticks.org [63.227.60.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8F237B65D for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:10:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (drew@localhost.poohsticks.org [127.0.0.1]) by chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f181Afn03745; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:10:42 -0700 Message-Id: <200102080110.f181Afn03745@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> To: Kevin Brunelle Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel editing tools. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:25:42 EST." <3A81E786.25B66250@netzero.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3741.981594641.1@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:10:41 -0700 From: Drew Eckhardt Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Home Page 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