Csope

Fork of Cscope, with various improvements, because cscope is good and shall not be forgotten.

Usacases

Csope shines at exploring stranger and obsecure code bases due to its TUI. Cscope used to be advertized a For example, the Cscope codebase used to be a total mess, fixing it would have been a lost cause, if not for Cscope itself.

Demo

TODO: fill in

Interface

            <-- Tab -->
  +------------Message-------------+           +--------------------------------+
A |+--------------+---------------+|           |+------------------------------+|
| || Input Window | Result window ||           ||                              ||
| |+--------------+               ||     ?     ||                              ||
  || Mode  Window |               ||   ---->   ||            Help              ||
% ||              |               ||   <----   ||                              ||
  ||              |               ||    ...    ||                              ||
| ||              |               ||           ||                              ||
| ||              |               ||           ||                              ||
V |+--------------+---------------+|           |+------------------------------+|
  +-----------Tool Tips------------+           +--------------------------------+

Improvements/Changes

User side

• renamed the program, because "cscope" is annoying to type
• improved gui /pending/
• GNU Readline integration (ie. VI/EMACS mode, command history) /pending/

To the code

• nuked autoconf, replaced with single Makefile
• removed "scanner.l" which seems to be an anchient version (and redundant copy) of "fscanner.l" forgotten by all
• encapsulated changes to the TUI into display.c
• removed macro hell put in place to allow compiling on a dead badger
• replaced repeated inline #ifdef KEY_*-s with guaranteed definitions
• removed random commets giving tips for and refering to specific issues
• use stdbool instead of YES/NO macros
• saved kilobytes by stripping trailing whitespace

Future features / contributor wishlist

• providing support for other languages by integrating new lexers (e.g. ctag's)