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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
