[TUHS] Re: Does anyone have any memories of using cscope that they care to share?

[Noel Hunt <noel.hunt@gmail.com>]

And don't forget that 'samuel' had an interface to 'cscope'.

The drawback to that is that 'samuel' tries to put cscope's output onto a
cacscaded button 3 menu, and when you have a large number of resuslts
this unfortunately becomes unwieldly. Samuel is extremely nice to use
when you aren't dealing with hundreds of results from a search.

By modifying cscope's output such that the filename/linenumber information
is in a saner format (i.e., 'filename:linenumber'), and is the first
field of the
output line, then it is possible to use cscope with Plan9-style plumbing (sam,
acme) by availing oneself of the line-oriented output format. This could, for
example, be read into an acme window.


On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 8:16 AM Marcus Clark <marcus.e.clark@outlook.com> wrote:
>
>
> Wikipedia has a brief page on cscope, which has a link  to
> https://cscope.sourceforge.net/history.html
> written by Harold Bamford, in which he talks about the
> early days of cscope at Bell Labs and its inventor Joe Steffan.
>
> I wondered if anyone can add any interesting information about using
> cscope on their projects or anything about its development.
>
> -Marcus.