Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: how do YOU hack the linux kernel ? | | From | Andy Walls <> | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:37:01 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 09:10 +0100, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 02:52:57PM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote: > > do you use vim ? > > > > If so, how do you open files you want to read/edit ? > > Assuming you don't remember their exact name/location, you'd need to > > use something like 'find . -iname '*pattern*'. which is slow. > > You can also ":tabnew ." and just browse the folders, but that's super slow too. > > Just use ctags to index your tree. Vim can then use this index to > directly drop you at the definition of a symbol. Works very well.
Yup. That's what I use.
> Just > google around to find tutorials to describe that in detail.
$ man ctags $ vim :help tags
for those who don't wish to rely on the Goggle.
Regards, Andy
> LXR is also a nice help sometimes: http://lxr.linux.no/linux/ > > Other than that you might develop a feeling for where to search, so you > can narrow your 'git grep' to specific places. > > HTH, > Daniel
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