From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756759Ab0A2IKg (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:10:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756749Ab0A2IKf (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:10:35 -0500 Received: from buzzloop.caiaq.de ([212.112.241.133]:43696 "EHLO buzzloop.caiaq.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756746Ab0A2IKe (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:10:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:10:10 +0100 From: Daniel Mack To: Ramagudi Naziir Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how do YOU hack the linux kernel ? Message-ID: <20100129081010.GA30756@buzzloop.caiaq.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 02:52:57PM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote: > do you use vim ? > > If so, how do you open files you want to read/edit ? > Assuming you don't remember their exact name/location, you'd need to > use something like 'find . -iname '*pattern*'. which is slow. > You can also ":tabnew ." and just browse the folders, but that's super slow too. Just use ctags to index your tree. Vim can then use this index to directly drop you at the definition of a symbol. Works very well. Just google around to find tutorials to describe that in detail. LXR is also a nice help sometimes: http://lxr.linux.no/linux/ Other than that you might develop a feeling for where to search, so you can narrow your 'git grep' to specific places. HTH, Daniel