Csope

Fork of Cscope, with various improvements, because cscope is good and shall not be forgotten. While the originals mainentence seems abandoned and as far as I can tell you need a PhD in autoconf to compile the latest version, Csope is alive and well.

Usacases

Csope shines at exploring stranger and obsecure code bases due to its TUI. It sometimes gets mislabeled as a code navigation tool, but the original documentation describes it best as a "code browsing tool". Many tools can jump you to a definition or grep for patterns, but Csope is unqie in that it allows for those and many other functionalities while providing you with a very comprehansible list of all results, ready to fire up your editor at just the spot. An example of its excelence is this project. The Cscope codebase used to be a total mess, fixing it would have been a lost cause, if not for Cscope itself. Well, Csope now.

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)

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