Can anyone suggest a good source code browser/editor?

[debicavett]

I require to study and edit source code of some C/C++ softwares that contains lots of files. Can anyone suggest a freeware or open source tool for it.
I want something like source-insight but its paid and trialware runs for 30 days only
Doxygen is good but doesn't support editing..
specially which tool these FOSS developer use ??
tool is preffered on windows linux one will also work

[Marie.O]

No idea, if this forum is the right location for your question, but a lot of people use pure and simple editors, like VI, emacs or joe. Others prefer whole IDEs like eclipse

[bulek]

I require to study and edit source code of some C/C++ softwares that contains lots of files. Can anyone suggest a freeware or open source tool for it.
I want something like source-insight but its paid and trialware runs for 30 days only
Doxygen is good but doesn't support editing..
specially which tool these FOSS developer use ??
tool is preffered on windows linux one will also work

Hi,

I have used Eclipse for some other languages,  and I like the idea of having one IDE for various tasks (I use Eclipse for Python, Perl, for some Texas Instruments DSP tasks), so I'll give you a hint to use it also for c++ development  - although I haven't used it yet for this purpose :

http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

HTH,

regards,

Bulek.

[golgoj4]

ive been using 'Codeblocks'. Its free and it works well for my purposes.


-golgoj4

[wierdbeard65]

+1 for Codeblocks

[golgoj4]

Another note,

I just found out the awesome secret of porting the gui over x. What does that mean? well it means I can download the sourcetree on my core, install codeblocks, and be able to use it from any computer capable of running ssh on my lan! Big help as before i was trying to read code with vi...and i cant use that for anything besides config files.

There are almost certainly instructions for porting x over ssh with your ssh program of choice. just google it. I just didn't know it was possible until being enlightened in irc

-golgoj4

[nite_man]

VIM as IDE - http://mamchenkov.net/wordpress/2004/05/10/vim-for-perl-developers/

See my attached config if you're interesting:
- F3 - check PHP script syntax;
- F4 - check Perl script syntax;
- F5 - run Perl script;
- F8 - show/hide tags list (functions/methods/classes). You need the package ctags for that.