[marupio]

I'm curious - what works for you guys?

I'm only using gedit. Sometimes I want to search through the OpenFOAM code to find an example, but I can't easily do that. I wound up creating two massive files - one that contains all /src code, and one with /applications. Then I use gedit's search feature.

I recently learned about 'Ultraedit' (commercial), which would have made much of that easier... that got me wondering what other foamers do.

Open discussion welcome.

[l_r_mcglashan]

I use gedit quite often with OpenFOAM, although I do use Eclipse a lot for other projects. Eclipse links in really well with CMake and Git so that you can do everything within the Eclipse IDE.

I think IDEs are especially useful when you start out (at least, new people in my group find code easier to get to know and navigate via an IDE).

I'm looking forward to the emacs/vi crew to pile in now.

[mbeaudoin]

Of course Emacs! Is there anything else?


Martin

[gschaider]

Originally Posted by mbeaudoin

Of course Emacs! Is there anything else?

Yeah. XEmacs

[akidess]

I use vim to edit code, grep to find in files and meld for diffs. Might be tough for beginners, but it works pretty well once you're used to it

[olesen]

Originally Posted by marupio

I'm curious - what works for you guys?

I'm only using gedit. Sometimes I want to search through the OpenFOAM code to find an example, but I can't easily do that. I wound up creating two massive files - one that contains all /src code, and one with /applications. Then I use gedit's search feature.

You can also use 'git grep' or 'git grep --cached' for general searching. This can be useful independent of your editor.

[arjun]

use notepad++, you will never use anything else after that.

[santiagomarquezd]

FYI, recently we release the first public version of gdbOF a tool to debug OpenFOAM attachable to gdb. It does easier to extract data formatting it to use Octave/Matlab, check BC's, dump matrices etc.

Check it out at: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Contrib_gdbOF

Any new ideas o contributors are welcome!

Regards

[marupio]

@Mark - grep - yeah, I've used it a little. I don't speak regexp very fluently... git grep would be useful if I used version control...

@Arjun - I use notepad++ on all my windows machines. I was looking for a version for Ubuntu.

@Santiago - I use gdb... a version that can make more sense of the objects in memory would be awesome! Thanks! I will check it out.

[arjun]

Originally Posted by marupio

@Mark - grep - yeah, I've used it a little. I don't speak regexp very fluently... git grep would be useful if I used version control...

@Arjun - I use notepad++ on all my windows machines. I was looking for a version for Ubuntu.

@Santiago - I use gdb... a version that can make more sense of the objects in memory would be awesome! Thanks! I will check it out.

i have started using it on ubuntu too. It works well with the help of wine. It is little bit hampered compared to windows version but still better than using gedit.

Install it with the help of wine and you will be able to run it.

[kalle]

For small modifications I usually go with vi. For larger stuff gedit.

grep / find / diff are good friends too!

[wyldckat]

I've had good experiences with Ultraedit in the past, but in Linux I usually resort to:

• The most familiar to me as Ultraedit is Kate, which I use for massive editing and searching in files - I only use gedit if Kate is out of reach;
• nano for quick editing;
• and for some corner cases, I resort to: sed, find, grep, xargs, and some other bash/sh internal commands.
• as for file comparison, diff or git diff, depending on the work layer.