[help] Want a tool to view source code

[deafguy]

Hi buddies,
I just started learning programming C++ on Linux. I want a tool to view the existing source code of others. I used Microsoft VC++ and Souce Insight on Windows. Is there such a tool on Linux, especially on Ubuntu? Thanks

[gerard4143]

Most Linux software that I've come across is open source...Just download the source..Or do you mean your looking for and IDE...Code::Blocks

[deafguy]

An IDE is OK. As long as it can quickly jump into a function definition if I wish. On windows, some poeple use SouceInsight as an IDE.

[Rubberman]

If you want something that will highlight syntax elements and let you edit easily, I like the nedit text editor. It offers syntax highlighting for just about every programming language known, and a few not hardly known... It also has one of the best search tools I know, supporting complex regular expressions across many files. I have used this to find specific programming constructs in source trees of hundreds of files. Sort of like a visual egrep.

[deafguy]

If you want something that will highlight syntax elements and let you edit easily, I like the nedit text editor. It offers syntax highlighting for just about every programming language known, and a few not hardly known... It also has one of the best search tools I know, supporting complex regular expressions across many files. I have used this to find specific programming constructs in source trees of hundreds of files. Sort of like a visual egrep.

Highlight syntax is necessary. Of course, searching files for the current class or function is also needed. I used VIM, which also has the syntax highlight for many program languages. But I will try your suggestion. nedit is a new tool for me.

[Cabhan]

I'm a huge Vim fan, and I don't even use IDEs because I prefer using its power and the commandline. If you're looking for another editor with the same power but another interface, you can look at Emacs, which is designed completely differently, but which is a very powerful text editor.

Also, I point you towards ctags. ctags takes all of the files in a project and creates a "tags" file for them which indexes all of the functions. You can now jump from any function call to its definition from within Vim. I'm sure you can do this somehow in Emacs as well.

VI and VIM editor: Tutorial and advanced features (go to the section called "Tagging")

[Rubberman]

Editors are like lovers. Each is different, but provides mostly the same benefits.