On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
<j...@gaillourdet.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 13.06.2010, at 22:32, Martin Drautzburg wrote:
>
>> I need your advice about how to browse code which was written by someone else
>> (Paul Hudak's Euterpea, to be precise, apx. 10000 LOC). I had set some hopes
>> on leksah, and it indeed shows me the interfaces, but I have not yet
>> convinced it to show me more than that.
>>
>> I ran haddock over the sources, and again I could not see more that just
>> signatures.
>>
>> I would be very happy with something like a Smalltalk browser. Something that
>> would let me zoom down to the source code, but with "search" and hyperlink
>> capabilities ("senders" and "implementers" in Smalltalk).
>>
>> Anyways, how do you guys do it, i.e. how to you dive into non-trivial foreign
>> code?
>
> I use the following tools:
>
> * haddock generated docs with hyperlinked sources
> * MacVim (or just vim) with Claus Reinke's haskellmode-vim, see:
> http://projects.haskell.org/haskellmode-vim/index.html
> Have a look at the screencasts to see documentation lookup, and code
> navigation: http://projects.haskell.org/haskellmode-vim/screencasts.html
> Make sure you know how to use tags inside of vim. ghci is able to generate
> the tagsfiles for you. This allows you to jump to definitions of
> identifiers.
If you go this route, I will shamelessly promote hothasktags instead
of ghci. It generates proper tags for qualified imports.
> * SourceGraph, it generates an HTML report of a cabal projekt or of any
> source tree. IMHO, great to get the overall picture.
>
> Regards,
> Jean-Marie
>
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