21 May 2009 - 19:39Tools for Reading Sources

Hacking is a good method of learning. And the pre-stage of hacking is reading the source code. You might have this experience: facing a large amount of source code (generally dozens of files), you don’t know how to start, or you even don’t know how to read them. A good tool is very helpful for reading code. It can facilitate your understanding of the code and help you find out the things you want as soon as possible. I will introduce you some wonderful tools of browsing sources.

For me, the must-have feathers of a source browsing tool should be:

1. Syntax highlighting
2. Friendly user interface
3. Identifier and function search

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