Asterisk Understanding the source code

When studying the Asterisk source code the following suggestions may prove useful:

Running CTAGS on the Asterisk source code then
loading the Asterisk source code into an editor that supports CTAGS will create an environment where
you can just highlight a variable and get a list of everywhere it’s used and see where and how it’s defined.

List of editors supporting CTAGS: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/tools.html
For Windows users, the open source jEdit editor works well.

A Slashdot Thread discusses various tool for studying source code

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