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Introducing CodeInsight: a powerful source code reader

CodeInsight is out now. It opens tar, tar.gz and zip archives without unpacking them, indexes every function and struct with ctags, and lets you jump through millions of lines of C — offline, on the device in your hand. The pitch is simple: a kernel source tree should read like it does in an editor, not like a folder of text files.

Open the archive. Don’t unpack it.

Point CodeInsight at a kernel tarball and start reading immediately. The app records file offsets once, then seeks straight to any file inside — so a 24 MB source tree becomes browsable in seconds, without a second expanded copy eating your storage.

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