[lug] source code browsing implementations

[karl horlen]

perhaps a client server / remote implementation of eclipse might do the trick?  anybody have any experience with this?




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> From: karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com>
>To: Boulder   Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> 
>Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 2:14 PM
>Subject: source code browsing implementations
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>been getting a lot of good advice lately.  thanks
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>i'm looking for recommendations for source code browsers.
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>i want something that allows me to navigate a tree of code both visually and easily at a minimum.  would be great if i could attach notes about each file when necessary while i browse the files either in a related metadata file or directly in the file itself.
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>more specifically, i've been downloading a lot of third party code lately that isn't necessarily under version control or a web based source navigator from the source i download from.   i look to be doing more of this in the upcoming year and it will vary from web languages to c / c++ code etc.
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>i can simply unpack the code and use indexes under apache to give me a very low budget browsing tool but it won't display a tree of folders when you drill down for nesting.
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>i guess i can import the local code into git or something and just edit the code and check back in to document the code as i learn it, but it doesn't really give me a browser option on top of that..
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>i do use vim / vi so perhaps there's a plugin that will allow me to do something like i want to do.  i think vim has it's own file browser but iirc it was rather clunky.
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>the code will likely be on a remote server i'll ssh into versus living on the system i'm currently on.  so it would be great to use some kind of web implementation along with source control and or maybe a tracking system to document the code as i go along.
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>looking for the simplest, best option.   plenty of requirements given above.  maybe i'm overthinking this?  suggestions welcome.
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