> Depends on what exactly you expect from such a thing. No, cscope doesn't > try to imitate grep. That's what grep itself is for. There is a > command-line, single-shot mode though. See option -L in the manpage.
grep works horribly for large projects - especially for NFS - but is in turn very useful for searching files. cscope has (or could have with the right algorithms) a much faster way of looking through a large project (plaintext or not), but in turn requires extra space. If you have this extra space, don't you see how this could be a exceedingly useful thing to have? Think 'locate' except for text. > >> 4. How well does it do on large, arbitrary text (as opposed to code) > > It doesn't. This is cscope, not Google. think it through a bit. Even open source code search engines have plaintext search; say I don't know a given function (or class, etc) but I know a comment that I used. Any complete code searching engine should have the ability to search very quickly for arbitrary text. And if it has the ability to look for arbitrary text in code, it could easily be made into a generic indexing engine, so you get a fully new functional area for free. But anyways, since it sounds like cscope has decided on its boundaries, let me rephrase the question - is anyone aware of an open source indexer that can do this? It should be able to index arbitrary text for sub-linear pattern matching. Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Cscope-devel mailing list Cscope-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cscope-devel
