Your editor/IDE settings for autocompletion and other easiness

[Oussama Jabbari]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Andrey Utkin
<andrey.krieger.utkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> (I was asked to research this topic to help students. So please ignore
> this topic if all you want to say is that it is OK to code in editor
> without autocompletion and any other integration, and that there's LXR
> website. We all know that.)
>
> Dear kernel developers,
> if you have a minute, please share
> - what's your configuration for editor integration with sources tree?
> (the opposite is "just using any editor")
> - which IDE/editor handiness options except autocompletion are
> possible to obtain while developing kernel code, and which options do
> you use?

Hi,

I already tried kernel drivers dev with Eclipse (it was quite helpful):
https://wiki.eclipse.org/HowTo_use_the_CDT_to_navigate_Linux_kernel_source

I also often use juste vim + cscope for searching the kernel:
make cscope
cscope -d


>
> If you don't use any special configuration, feel free not to reply.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Andrey Utkin
>
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