ctags and Vim
At work I deal with a large code base. Taking into consideration that I'm often still familiarizing myself with the code, you can imagine that it isn't easy finding things. An average day working in the code used to involve me trying to determine what a bit-field flag means, which involves tracking down a #define somewhere in the code. Worse yet are the various functions I've seen around and now need to understand what they're doing, leaving me to find where they're doing it.
Now at first I was running commands like egrep -R '^some_function_name' * or egrep -R '^#define \+FLAG' *. This usually worked, but it meant I would then have to then open the file up in my vim session. This took away a lot of time, and I knew that there was a better way.
ctags is a program that will go through code ...
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