Finding a usable code search engine
- Google Code Search
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Pros
- links to the code in the same package
Cons
- Limited set of languages, e.g. no Groovy search
- No in-page links to other classes
- Virtually no code highlighting, only comments are highlighted.
- Koders.com
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Pros
- In-page links to other classes' search and direct links to the class definition of the searched class
- Code highlighting all the languages
Cons
- No package navigation from the matched code
- Krugle
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Pros
- Code highlighting for the most popular languages (C, C++,Java,Pascal)
- Navigation sidebar with the file tree of the package
Cons
- No in-page links to other classes