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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:04:56 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "S.Mohideen" <moin@switch.net.in>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Source Code Navigation
Message-ID:  <20060813233456.GE63783@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <44DF4855.3050105@switch.net.in>
References:  <44DED712.1060809@switch.net.in> <20060813082839.GC63783@wantadilla.lemis.com> <44DF4855.3050105@switch.net.in>

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On Sunday, 13 August 2006 at 15:42:13 +0000, S.Mohideen wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Sunday, 13 August 2006 at  7:38:58 +0000, S.Mohideen wrote:
>>> What tools your people use apart from CTAGS/cscope to navigate
>>> vast source code base. Im using ctags in gvim. Want to know any
>>> better tool which you may be using.
>>
>> There's not really much choice.  I'm currently playing with GNU global
>> (http://www.gnu.org/software/global/, available in
>> /usr/ports/devel/global), which so far seems to be a little better
>> than etags; I don't use ctags.
>>
>> http://www.lemis.com/grog/software/source-code-navigation.html has
>> some somewhat out-of-date info on the subject.
>
>         May be a foolish question to ask. What editor gvim/emacs plays
> well with global based upon your experience.

Emacs.

But that's my experience.  global is supposed to be independent of
editors, and it also has a command-line interface.  You would have
seen this if you had followed the links I gave.

Greg
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