learning dragonfly or C...

[George Georgalis]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:32:24AM -0800, Max Okumoto wrote:
>George Georgalis wrote:
>[stuff deleted]
>>When jumping into a block of code that has functions and
>>declarations, what is an efficient way to to find those definition
>>amidst all the includes, paths and Makefiles of the whole tree,
>>without completely losing your place? (eg I'd like to reference
>>O_RDONLY and fp_close)
>[stuff deleted]
>
>If you use vi as your editor you can navigate code using a
>tags file, other editors have similar functionality (for
>example emacs uses etags).
>
>% man 1 vi
>..
>   -t     Start editing at the specified tag.  (See ctags(1)).

Max,

_That_ is really awesome! Just when I thought I had vim optimized,
here's a whole new galaxy to explore! Thanks!

>If you are interested in the kernel source then there is a
>target in /usr/src/sys/i386/Makefile which will create a tags
>file for the whole kernel.

will check that out too.

// George


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