Code Analysis

Source Insight parses your source code and maintains its own database of symbolic information dynamically while you work, and presents useful contextual information to you automatically. Source Insight also can display reference trees, class inheritance diagrams, and function call trees. Source Insight has a group of auxiliary panel windows that work together to give you quick and useful navigation of source code and source information.

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Always Up-To-Date Symbol Information

Because programs are constantly under development, it’s important that even symbols in code that will not compile can be browsed in with up-to-date accuracy. Source Insight maintains its symbol database to provide browsing features instantly, without having to compile the project or having to depend on the compiler to provide browser files. Source Insight quickly and un-intrusively updates its information about your files, even while you edit code. Furthermore, the symbol features are built into each Source Insight project automatically. You don’t need to build any extra tag files.

Call Graphs

The Relation Window is a Source Insight innovation that shows interesting relationships between symbols. It runs in the background in its own panel window and tracks what symbols you have selected. It can show class hierarchies, call trees, reference trees, and more.

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Class Inheritance Display

You get information automatically in the background while you work, but you can interact with the Relation window when you want to. The Relation Window can be viewed either graphically, or in outline format. You can also have several Relation Windows open, each showing different types of information.

Project-wide Keyword Searches

Like an Internet Search on Your Code Base

You can use the Search Project command like a web search on your project. This lets you find sections of code that refer to one or more topics within a specified number of lines. It can even find matches on meaningful symbol name fragments. You can use Boolean expressions, and find word variations.

For example, you might type "save disk (copy or duplicate)" and Source Insight will find all references to "save", "disk", and either "copy" or "duplicate" that occur near each other (as well as word variations, such as "saves", "saved", and "saving"), including function and variable names such as SaveFile, or make_duplicate.

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Find References

Search quickly for references to symbols all across your project. Source Insight indexes your source code to make it fast.

Smart Rename

Source Insight’s context-sensitive Smart Rename allows you to effortlessly rename variables, functions, class members, and other identifiers in one simple step. Smart Rename is smart enough to rename local scope variables, as well as global or class scope identifiers. Indexing makes the operation fast.

Symbolic Auto-Completion

Auto completion shows you a list of potential identifier names. Source Insight can show you function and variable names, as well as class and structure fields nested up to many levels of depth. Source Insight decodes the types of variables (including inheritance) on the fly. File names are also auto-completed.

Contextual Syntax Formatting

Syntax Formatting is an important Source Insight innovation that renders information in a dense, yet pleasing and useful way. It provides vastly improved display capabilities, including full rich text formatting with user-defined styles. Source Insight applies styles automatically based on lexical and symbolic information about your project. You can fully customize the style formatting.

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Formatting Conveys Information

Unlike simple syntax highlighting, the formatting applied to identifiers is based on their scope and declared types. In this example, you can tell the difference between class members and file-scope symbols due to the formatting.

Helpful Syntax Decorations

Source Insight can automatically add extra decorations to your code to improve its display.

Common operators, such as the pointer dereference right arrow (->), or the assignment operator (=) can be replaced with symbolic operators, such as arrows.

Nested parentheses are shown in different sizes to make it easier to identify matching sets.

An up or down arrow appears in goto statements, to point in the direction of the target label.

Automatic "end brace" annotations are added to the closing curly brace in C/C++/C# and Java code. This makes it easier to understand nested if, while, switch, and other blocks of code.

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Undecorated Code:

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Automatic Reference Highlighting

Source Insight can highlight references to the symbol at the cursor position. For example, you can click in a variable name, and all references to the variable will be highlighted. The references are context sensitive, so a symbol in a different scope will not get highlighted. This works for variables, class members, functions, and so on. This is an option that is controlled by file type.

Collapsible Code Blocks

Nested code blocks and regions can be collapsed and expanded to help you navigate and understand complex functions.

Overview Scroller

The Overview scroller bar is positioned like a scroll bar, but gives you a bird's eye view of your file. It can show you nesting, the boundaries of functions, bookmarks, and help to orient you within long functions.

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Multiple Layouts

Save multiple window layouts, and switch quickly between them.

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File Compare

Source Insight's built-in File Compare window is updated as you edit. It shows differences in two files side by side. You can quickly compare a file with an older version, using Compare with Backup File.

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Directory Compare

The Directory Compare window works alongside the File Compare window to compare the contents of two directories. Double click a file to show the file's differences.

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Code Beautifier

Reformat your source with the built-in code beautifier that works on curly brace languages, such as C/C++ and C#, and Java.

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Export Project Source to HTML

You can use this to export all the files to HTML versions that contain most of the same syntax formatting you see in Source Insight.

It creates a snapshot of your source code project that can be viewed with a web browser for online browsing and refer­ence.

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Code Snippets

Code Snippets are small chunks of commonly used source code that you can insert into your source files. Snippets can also be programming language-specific, or common to all languages, or common to certain sets of languages.

Snippets can contain placeholder variables which are special identifiers that are automatically expanded when the snippet is inserted. For example, $date$ is a text variable that gets replaced with the current date.

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Snippet Panel

Use the Snippets panel to organize your snippets, and to quickly edit or insert snippets.

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Bookmarks

Use persistent bookmarks to remember key locations within functions or classes. You can use the Relation window to create a reference tree and copy it to bookmarks for future use.

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Backup File Management

Source Insight automatically maintains backups of your source files when you save. It’s easy to open a backup version, or compare a backup version with the current version. You control how long backups are kept.

Clip Window for Storing Multiple Clipboards and Boiler Plate Code

You can easily rearrange code and insert boilerplate text by using the Clip Window. The Clip Window contains clips of text that you can keep handy for dropping into source files when needed. Clips are automatically saved and maintained across sessions. Clips also remember what function or symbol they came from.

Two-Stage Line Revision Marks and Selective Line Restoration

Source Insight displays line revision marks in the margin next to lines that have been changed, or where lines have been deleted. This makes it easy to see where you have made changes in your files. Not only can you see where you made changes, but also you can restore them to their original text with the Restore Line command. The Restore Line command is undo-able. This gives you powerful, out-of-order undo capabilities!

The undo and change history for each file is preserved after you save the file. The line revision marks also change color when a file is saved. After saving a file, you can still see what lines were edited, and restore them, or perform undo operations.

High DPI Display Support

Source Insight supports high DPI resolution displays. Fonts and user interface buttons and images are scaled correctly.

Customizable Menus and Keyboard

The keyboard, the mouse buttons, and the menus are fully configurable.

Support for Remote Terminal Server

Source Insight detects when you are using it in a remote Terminal Server or Remote Desktop session, and scales back its display-intensive features. You can customize Remote Session options.

Designed for Large Projects

Source Insight can handle projects with millions of lines of code and millions of declared symbols.

Extensible File Types and Languages

You can add new file types based on file name extensions or wildcards. This allows different editing, display, and language parsing options for different types of files.

You can also add your own custom languages to Source Insight. A custom language specifies limited syntax rules, syntax formatting keywords, and simple parsing expressions.

Crash Recovery for Full-Time Protection

Source Insight saves your editing changes incrementally and transparently to a recovery file. In the event of a computer crash, Source Insight can recover all the changes made to files, even if you didn’t save them. This is not an auto-save feature, which interrupts you so that files can be saved. Only the changes you have made are stored in the recovery file.