> cscope is a tool for a very specific purpose, and a good part of its power > comes from limiting itself to that. The majority of cscope's features would > make no sense whatsoever for a general-purpose search engine. When have you > last wanted to find functions called by function <name> in an accounting > report?
No.. I'm not thinking that - of course cscope should retain the ability to find function names, class names, etc and that it should retain that ability easily.. What gave you the idea that I wanted to have cscope give that up? Or that supporting generic search would do this? What I'm suggesting is that you support generic search by a separate tag (call it 'text'), and that you maybe limit the search to text files (and stop short at doing stuff like indexing gzip files, etc.) Something like opengrok - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/%3Bjsessionid=C8E71D0E37FC0E3C4E95AF44F772B2EF - which is great but unfortunately has very little in the way of editor support (vim, emacs, etc), and seems to be very oriented towards the browser. But if necessary, I probably could hack through this to make it do what I want. In any case, look at: http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/manual/idutils.html#Past-and-Future It says - very explicitly - that they want a cscope like interface, and an 'optional coupling with grep'. I'd say that cscope should have the same goals, and the projects should work together to do this (to avoid duplication of effort). And that I am not alone in my desire to see the three tools work well together. > This begins to feel like you might be suffering from a bout of "new hammer > syndrome" (where as soon as you leave the store, having bought a new hammer, > suddenly everything in the world looks like nails). Search is search is search. I'd counter with your hammer analogy that my wanting fulltext search in cscope for comments or log files is more akin to me going to the hardware store, finding a nice set of allen wrenches, and finding when I get home that they support US measurments but not metric. 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
