Someone just suggested ctags, I've never heard of ctags or cscope- I will look at them. I don't really know what I was looking for,ctags kind turns C source code into hypertext: you put your cursor on a function call in a source file, press the magic key, and vi[m] jumps to the appropriate line in the appropriate source file where that function is implemented. Press another magic key, and vi[m] jumps back to the call site. Makes it easy and convenient to do a calling-tree structured exploration of source code. I found it very valuable for understanding how a program is intended to function.
I often find it quite furstrating trying to keep track of whats going on across XX global variables inside of XX internal functions, and so on- so really anything that would help me keep track of it, I suppose a debugger and alot ofctags does not track variables at all. It only does the above hypertext trick.
Crispin
-- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/ CTO, Immunix http://immunix.com/
