looks like Google ain’t going to slow down these days: Code Search – Google’s effort on indexing source-code on the web – was launched earlier today. Code Search offers developers powerful ways (read: regular expressions) to search for code-snippets in any particular language, under any specific license. a quick test-drive unveiled that Code Search suffers [...]
the recommendable All about Linux-blog features a detailed walk through of many features introduced with the new version 7.0 of texteditor Vim (Vi-improved). highlights include spellchecking, ‘omni’-code completion for many predefined languages, tabbed user-interface and undo-branches. the latter is a life-saving time-machine: typing ‘:earlier 5m‘ rewinds the editor-buffer to its state 5 minutes ago [...]
I just discovered O’Reilly Code Search (Beta), a search engine indexing all the sample code of more than 700 books published by O’Reilly (that’s about 2.6mio lines-of-code ). snippets are annoted and linked with similar code from other books – a great resource for those owning an O’Reilly-collection worth several metres of shelfspace.