Using an IDE to work on the Java library

[Seán Coffey]

Slightly off topic.. but I'm a big fan of OpenGrok[1] for navigating the 
JDK sources. Great for sharing links also.

It would be great if we could get an external instance of such a service 
to index JDK sources.

regards,
Sean.

[1] https://opengrok.github.io/OpenGrok/

On 22/11/2017 17:54, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> I remember back in the '80s the tool vendors were making fun of us folk who
> used "grep" as their code understanding tool.  Now 30 years later, I still
> live in Emacs with recursive grep being my main way of navigating the
> sources.  It's tough because openjdk's java sources may be ahead of IDE
> language support, and the sources also come with lots of hard-to-grok C++
> and Makefiles.