I take it from the complete lack of response that I'm alone in my desire for these features.
I guess I'll wade into the source myself and see if I can add them for my own use. Begin forwarded message: > From: Michael Sullivan <[email protected]> > Date: 29-July-2010 12:51:51 PM; Thu, 29-Jul > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Indexing c/c++ comments and text files > > 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
