Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754525Ab0AUAPM (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:15:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752240Ab0AUAPL (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:15:11 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:35296 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752421Ab0AUAPK (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:15:10 -0500 To: Ramagudi Naziir Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how do YOU hack the linux kernel ? From: Andi Kleen References: Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:15:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Ramagudi Naziir's message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:52:57 +0200") Message-ID: <87ocko2u0m.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 733 Lines: 23 Ramagudi Naziir writes: > do you use vim ? > > If so, how do you open files you want to read/edit ? > Assuming you don't remember their exact name/location, you'd need to > use something like 'find . -iname '*pattern*'. which is slow. GNU id-utils does that nicely (file name / symbol lookup) I usually use it for symbol lookup. I am not aware of a vim integration though, although there's one for emacs. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/