This page has been created with the intention of exchanging opinions on which tools help you to improve your work on FreeBSD source tree. It shares some good development habits as well.

Source code editing:

• nvi(1)

• editors/vim <put some macros here>

• editors/emacs <put some macros here>

Source code reading:

• devel/ctags extended ctags

See if these are very different from typical tags..

• devel/cscope lets you to quickly move between source code files. It builds a database of tags (similar to ctags), which is used later to jump between function prototypes/definitions.

It can be easily integrated with vim(1) editor.

Additional tools:

• textproc/diffstat lets you to see a statistics of a patch in terms of inserted/deleted/changed lines. It's similar to what you see on git-related mailing lists.