SVN Introduction

A very common thing while doing any kind of project is using repository. I tend to forget these commands every now and then. That's why this

svn checkout http://fileextensiontype.unfuddle.com/svn/fileextensiontype_fi/ local_directory_name

svn status

svn add *

svn commit


You may also have to do this
export EDITOR=vim

Wordweb Equivalent on Linux

One feature I really miss in Linux is Word-Web. We can have word-web in Linux using wine but pressing the hot-key when word is selected does not activate it. Thus, we can use "gnome-dictionary" with "xbindkeys" and "xclip" to get same kind of functionality.

yum install xbindkeys
yum install xclip
xbindkeys --defaults > ~/.xbindkeysrc
xbindkeys -k

Now a small window will appear and you can get code for the key-combination pressed. Use this combination in configuration file ~/.xbindkeysrc. (I got m:0x1c + c:52 for alt+ctrl+e)

cat <<- END
"gnome-dictionary $(xclip -o)"
m:0x1c + c:52
END
echo "xbindkeys &" >> ~/.bashrc
killall -HUP xbindkeys


Equivalent to "delimiter cat" is "echo -e".

That's it. Just select any word you don't know and press your key combination. We will get its meaning.

Using cscope and ctags

Many people complain that though Linux is in C they don't have good IDE for C development. Though there the things mentioned here are not great but they are good enough to help you in C development.

1. Cscope

find . -name '*.c' > cscope.files
cscope -i cscope.files

cscope.files is default file name, thus just cscope command would work. To exit, you can type Ctrl+D and to see help, you can type "?".

2.Ctags

cd /path/to/your/project
ctags -R *
vim -t
Once inside a file, hitting ctrl-] while the cursor is over a function/class name, Vim will attempt to open the file with that tag. Pressing ctrl-t will take you back a step. To exit, , regular ":q" should work.