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Software to help understand source code
Update 2019-08-27: this tool has reached end of life and seems no longer maintained.
All in all, I'd say your wish list for a gratis tool like that is quite long. In the last company I worked for, I ...
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Tool to compare two source code files on Windows
From my answer to this question - two days ago HINT: you can search our site for questions similar to the one that you plan to ask.
I don’t think that you will get a better open source application ...
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Software to search through your own libraries of source code?
Semantic Designs' Source Code Search Engine (SCSE) uses language specific scanners to break each source file into its constituent lexemes, indexes everything, and then provides a GUI-based search ...
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Tools for creating call graph for Ruby application?
The stackprof gem will generate a call graph. Its readme shows this sample:
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Tool for Reviewing Source Code
I would strongly recommend taking a look at Review Board, free and open source but with commercial support but it will not tell you that the example you give is different in the second case, your ...
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Code compare and merge tool for Mac OSX
Here are some suggestions:
FileMerge (opendiff)
It's no longer bundled with Xcode Command Line Tools, you must install Xcode from either the App Store or the Apple Developer Website.
DiffMerge
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Offline code browser for Android
Update 2016-11-02
SGit will no longer be maintained, but the further development will be done under the project MGit (GPLv3).
the one almost full featured open source (GPLv3) git-client on android i ...
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Source code editor for Windows that lets me set a font for each Unicode script
Rather than trying to find an IDE or editor that allows different projects/files to use different fonts while not try to find and use a Mono Spaced font that covers all of your required languages.
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What are some of the best examples of lock free practices in Java?
Here is list of libraries with lock-free and wait-free data structures for JVM:
https://github.com/JCTools/JCTools
https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine
If you can read Scala code then look into ...
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C++ code documentation generation tool
I can strongly recommend Sphinx Document generator - for an example site take a look at the new wxPython documentation.
Generates documentation from:
Python code
C/C++ code
reStructuredText3
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Are there parsing tools like gcc-xml for C++11 code syntax?
The gccxml site now states that it has been superseded by CastXML, based on LLVM >= 3.6, which supports C++ 11.
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Library to detect in which programming language a code snippet is written
Here's one github/linguist that used by github, a ruby library.
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Software to search through your own libraries of source code?
I tend to use Agent Ransack for this.
Free
Microsoft Windows XP (SP3)/2003/Vista/2008/7/2012/8/8.1
Supports regular expressions on file name and query text
Preview matching line from files within ...
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Software to search through your own libraries of source code?
I use grep. As I store all my code under the same path on my filesystem I open up my linux shell (but that will work via cygwin on windows as well) and cd to the directory.
Grep is a very ...
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Are there parsing tools like gcc-xml for C++11 code syntax?
I would recommend doxygen - while the C++11 support does seem to have a few bugs outstanding it should give you a very good start.
Free
list of types - yes
list of functions - yes
list of methods of ...
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What software can I use to measure LLOC, function points and cyclomatic complexity of Bash scripts?
[2 months and no responses. I'm providing a commercial answer since
no other answers seem forthcoming.]
Our Source Code Search Engine (SCSE) is used to search large repositories containing many (...
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What software can I use to measure LLOC, function points and cyclomatic complexity of Bash scripts?
I released Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for shell script.
ShellMetrics - Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for shell script
https://github.com/shellspec/shellmetrics
It measure NLOC (Non-comment Line ...
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Source code highlighting
You can use Netbeans to achieve this result.
Open your source file in it and navigate to the appropiate lines using
CTRL+g 3
Then you mark the line as bookmark like this:
CTRL+SHIFT+M
That way ...
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iOS app (or similar) to view source of web page
View Source – HTML, JavaScript and CSS
View Source is an app which adds an iOS 8 extension to Safari to allow you to view the source code of a webpage.
The app includes syntax highlighting and the ...
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Syntax highlighting plugin with tabs
highlight.js and JQueryUI like in this example?
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Syntax-highlighting and tabs</title>
<script src="https://...
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multilanguage source code reformatter / beautifier / pretty-printer
You could look at CodeMirror 2 which fits 90%-95% of your requirements and can be expanded to fit the rest:
Open Source & Gratis - Yes commercial support is available from the author.
Code ...
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Handwriting to computer code
I think you would be better off looking for voice-recognition software, as there seems to be more interest in coding by voice.
That said, for writing on a touchscreen, do you remember Graffiti for ...
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Tool to tabify/untabify all source files in Visual Studio solution
I would recommend Notepad++ to do all sorts of heavy duty file editing. The current version, 7.0, is a new release and when you go for the 64bit flavor, and compatible plugins/add-ons are few, ...
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Extension/plugin to format SQL in a way easy to block select it
You might consider an online SQL builder as well.
http://www.buildmystring.com will build your sql strings and has quite a few spacing and formatting options.
Cheers.
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Online tool for saving code snippets
Here you go:
https://gist.github.com/
There you can create you own snippets, share, favorite, tag, etc...
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Online tool for saving code snippets
I would recommend these following web-apps:
TiddlyWiki
TiddlyWiki is a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing and sharing complex information. It has tags and search. So, it makes you ...
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Tool to compare two source code files on Windows
CudaText editor is gratis. It has plugin "Differ", it can be installed from "Plugins - Addon Manager - Install". To call plugin, use "Plugins - Differ" menu.
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Code compare and merge tool for Mac OSX
If you are already working with code then I recommend Visual Studio Code since it has an excellent built-in diff tool. Visual Studio Code is a pretty good code editor in its own right so I think it's ...
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Code compare and merge tool for Mac OSX
Take a look at this StackOverflow question. Might be what you asked for.
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Advice on software for solving transient heat conduction? The temperature of the material that is cooling is not uniform
The basic approach for both MatLab, and other tools such as NumPy, is to use Finite Element Method. This approach would be to divide your material into a number of grid squares, (the number depending ...
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