Did anyone have any thoughts about adding these two features -- I think everyone could really benefit from them.
On 25-Jul-2010, at 8:04 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > This is a message that was originally started on the help list, but it was > recommended that the discussion move to the bug list as it contains a request > for two features: > > Comment Indexing > ---------------- > Comments in files parsed by the c/c++ parser (as identified in the langmap) > are ignored. I'm wondering if it would be possible to add a command line > option to not skip the symbols in comments. > > Text File Indexing > ------------------ > Text files that potentially contain useful things to search for (e.g. MIB > files) don't appear to have a parser (as identified in the langmap). I'm > wondering if it would be possible to add a text parser that could be used to > simply index every word in those files. > > Any thoughts? > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Michael Sullivan <[email protected]> >> >> Did anyone have any thoughts about adding these two features -- I think >> everyone could really benefit from them. >> >> On 19-Jul-2010, at 9:55 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: >> >>> I only cited id-utils in my first message so that you could see an example >>> where another tags system had a capability that appears to be missing >>> natively in global. However, I'm not actually trying to generate an >>> id-utils database -- I consider the gtags/global database, tools, and >>> output to be superior. >>> >>> Instead, I have two different problems that can be potentially solved in >>> different ways: >>> >>> Comments >>> -------- >>> ... >>> >>> Text Files >>> ---------- >>> ... >>> >>> On 19-Jul-2010, at 9:24 PM, Shigio YAMAGUCHI wrote: >>> >>>> You can use the functions of id-utils by the -I option of gtags and global. >>>> Is it insufficient? >>>> >>>>> I would like to instruct global/gtags to index c/c++ comments (and >>>>> potentially other text files). For example, the following c++ comment >>>>> text isn't currently indexed by global/gtags, but I would like it to be: >>>>> >>>>> // SOME_IMPORTANT_ENUM_1 >>>>> "Some corresponding text 1", >>>>> >>>>> // SOME_IMPORTANT_ENUM_2 >>>>> "Some corresponding text 2", >>>>> >>>>> etc. >>>>> >>>>> The comment text refers to symbols that are indexed elsewhere and I want >>>>> a cross-reference search to return references to the comment lines above. >>>>> >>>>> When I used to use id-utils, I was able to achieve this by telling it >>>>> that c/c++ files were actually text (e.g. set those extensions up to use >>>>> the text parser in id-utils' langmap). Although I found a langmap >>>>> setting in the .globalrc file, it doesn't appear to have a "text" parser. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a possibility of adding something like this? _______________________________________________ Bug-global mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-global
