[lug] source code browsing implementations

[Davide Del Vento]

I've read all the other answers, and I do often (if not always) use
vim for my own coding.
However I believe what you need is a version control system, no more, no less.
Any one (pick the one you are familiar with). All of them have some
hook for apache so that you can do the remote web browsing stuff.
Do you really want to host yourself? If not, you have many options of
free or paid hosting (see for example page 65 of the PDF mentioned
below): many give you a lot of what you need and probably more.

http://sea.ucar.edu/event/version-control

HTH,
Davide

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 14:14, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> been getting a lot of good advice lately.  thanks
>
> i'm looking for recommendations for source code browsers.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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..
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> looking for the simplest, best option.   plenty of requirements given
> above.  maybe i'm overthinking this?  suggestions welcome.
>
>
>
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