Hi,
I am just learning how to use ctags.  From the looks of this thread, I
gather cscope can do more than ctags.  Is worth to skip learning ctags
and just jump into cscope? Thanks.

On Sep 18, 10:29 pm, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2:45 pm, Gregory Margo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:45:14AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > > Are you aware of vim's built-in :grep command?
> > >     :help :grep
>
> > Yes, but it is unsuitable.  The goal of my script is to create a buffer
> > with a location list in it.  How does :grep do that?
>
> This is exactly what :grep or :lgrep does.
>
> > Jump to the first match is _never_ what I want.
>
> So use :grep! (with the !)
>
> > And it's noisy.
>
> Huh? It has no more and no less output than whatever your grepprg is
> set to.
>
> > And needs an extra step to get the list, a ":copen".
>
> Which you could do in one shot, :grep! blah | botright copen
>
> You could even make a cabbr or a mapping to add whatever you want to
> the command for you.
>
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Find_in_files_within_Vim
>
> > And there's only one
> > quickfix list.  Could use :lgrep and :lopen to get multiple location
> > lists.
>
> As you say, you can use :lgrep instead of :grep to get multiple
> location lists. What's the issue?
>
> You can also use just :grep and then use :colder and :cnewer to go
> back and forth between the results of multiple searches.
>
> > (And where does :lopen get off ignoring my setting for
> > 'splitbelow'?).
>
> Don't know, what's it doing now? I've always seen it below the current
> window, where does it show up for you?
>
> Is there a way to get the location list associated
>
> > with a :grep without jumping to the first file?
>
> :grep!
>
> > > For jumping to particular lines in files from a <file name>:<line
> > > number> pair in a buffer there are:
> > >     :help CTRL-W_F
> > >     :help gF
>
> > Which does not work work if 'isfname' contains a colon.
> > I'm mostly working with perl, and ftplugin/perl.vim adds a colon to
> > 'isfname', so this breaks gF.  Yes I could undo it, but there are
> > reasons to keep it.
>
> > And gF does not seem to work right on a location list generated with
> > :lopen.  I'm not sure what it's doing.  Some kind of quickfix mode -
> > also something I never want.
>
> Works fine for me. The location list/quickfix list both use filename|
> line number|, not filename:line number so it's all right. What is it
> doing for you?
>
> There is no "quickfix mode", only a quickfix window.
>
>
>
> > The shell does what I want: sorting, ignoring dot directories like .svn
> > or .git, and ordering by hierarchy depth.  "grep -R" does not even sort.
>
> :grep does whatever your grepprg does, it just parses the results and
> puts it in the quickfix list.
>
> Basically, you made a complicated (and probably clever) script, but it
> pretty much duplicates built-in functionality.
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