Improved CMSSW WebCVS browsing with Greasemonkey

Understanding what complex CMSSW processes do usually involves a lot of file navigation since there are pretty large include hierarchies involved. The CMSSW LXR is great for navigating the C++ part of things, but sadly doesn't support Python very well. Since the lookup rules to find include files and Python imports in CMSSW are pretty easy, I wrote a Greasemonkey user script that makes links out of

• C #include statements
• Python import statements
• CMSSW .load("...") statements

in the CMSSW WebCVS.

Installation

• Get Greasemonkey.
• Restart Firefox, notice the smiling monkey icon in your status bar.
• Get the user script.
• Go to some particularly nasty configuration file (e.g. here) and enjoy your new navigation powers!

Header/Source switching

Another quite useful thing is the header-source switch bookmarklet which allows easy switching between .cc files and the associated .h files.

• Go to this page and bookmark the link there (sorry, TWiki is confused by complex links).
• Go to a WebCVS .cc or .h page (e.g. here) and click the bookmark to be transported to the other part of the pair!

-- ThomasThemel - 08-Oct-2009