finding things in the source tree, a proposal

[David Elliott]

In article <2083 at esquire.UUCP>, yost at esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
|> Imagine this:
|> 
|> Thinks to self: Hmm, where is the source to thingy?
|> Types this:     cd /src/where/`which thingy`
|> Et voila!

I like your idea, Dave.

I would like to point out, though, that with judicious use of cdpath,
this can already be done.  I've done a couple of Unix utilities ports
in the past 7 years, and maintained X clients for over a year now.  With
such a large number of items, I've always had elements from my source
trees in my cdpath.  The source for 'ls' is always a 'cd ls' away.

David Elliott
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