[haiku-development] Re: source tagging/navigation (was: Researching before mailing)

  • From: Chris Roberts <cpr420@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:49:23 -0600

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le Sun, 16 May 2010 18:19:04 +0200, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
> a écrit:
>
>> Other editors/IDEs don't support Jam so there's unlikely a working "Go To
>> Definition" context menu function anywhere...
>
> vim can do it, but it needs some tweaking. You usually have to generate a
> ctags file from the source, and this fails if you do it on the whole haiku
> tree, because /tmp is not big enough (at least on my linux system). Maybe we
> could have it generated somewhere and uploaded to svn from time to time ...
> Or maybe I'm the only one using vim and no one cares :)

I'm not a vim user but there are plugins for both cscope and global
which provide this.  I've used both of these programs on the entire
source tree from within Haiku and they worked well.

--Chris

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