Hello, On 13.06.2010, at 22:32, Martin Drautzburg wrote:
I need your advice about how to browse code which was written by someone else (Paul Hudak's Euterpea, to be precise, apx. 10000 LOC). I had set some hopes on leksah, and it indeed shows me the interfaces, but I have not yet convinced it to show me more than that.
I ran haddock over the sources, and again I could not see more that just signatures.
I would be very happy with something like a Smalltalk browser. Something that would let me zoom down to the source code, but with "search" and hyperlink capabilities ("senders" and "implementers" in Smalltalk).
Anyways, how do you guys do it, i.e. how to you dive into non-trivial foreign code?
I use the following tools: * haddock generated docs with hyperlinked sources * MacVim (or just vim) with Claus Reinke's haskellmode-vim, see: http://projects.haskell.org/haskellmode-vim/index.html Have a look at the screencasts to see documentation lookup, and code navigation: http://projects.haskell.org/haskellmode-vim/screencasts.html Make sure you know how to use tags inside of vim. ghci is able to generate the tagsfiles for you. This allows you to jump to definitions of identifiers. * SourceGraph, it generates an HTML report of a cabal projekt or of any source tree. IMHO, great to get the overall picture. Regards, Jean-Marie