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From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To: Marcus Clark <marcus.e.clark@outlook.com>
Cc: TUHS <TUHS@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Does anyone have any memories of using cscope that they care to share?
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 22:48:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7dMtD=N5W-cJ9FNcgdLRFs9Bc=RBr475T4awREOFO1KeEw2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LO2P123MB74066CA4C75C4E6FF10DA007D53C2@LO2P123MB7406.GBRP123.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM 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.

I used it a bit when coming up with FreeBSD kernel development 8 or so
years ago.  These days I just tend to use 'ripgrep' which has been a
game changer for me when working across the repo sprawls of a
corporation.. having outrageous speed and not having to maintain an
index is really the winning ticket for my millennial brain.

> -Marcus.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-06  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-04 21:16 [TUHS] " Marcus Clark
2024-04-04 22:38 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2024-04-04 22:41   ` Dan Cross
2024-04-04 23:35   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-04-05  1:37     ` Dave Horsfall
2024-04-05  2:07       ` Larry McVoy
2024-04-05  3:54         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-04-05  4:03           ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-04-07 21:39           ` Dave Horsfall
2024-04-05  1:38 ` Noel Hunt
2024-04-05 10:11   ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-04-05 20:46     ` Noel Hunt
2024-04-05  6:48 ` Brad Spencer
2024-04-06  5:48 ` Kevin Bowling [this message]

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