From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 7 17:57:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C9537B4EC for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:57:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f181wh902205; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:58:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102080158.f181wh902205@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 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 Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:58:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. Typically I either just use less and a stack of terminal windows, or cscope (the latter is in the ports collection, and invaluable). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message