49 lines
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49 lines
2.7 KiB
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# Csope
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Fork of Cscope, with various improvements, because cscope is good and shall not be forgotten.
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While the originals mainentence seems abandoned and as far as I can tell you need a PhD in autoconf to compile the latest version,
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Csope is alive and well.
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# Usacases
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Csope shines at exploring stranger and obsecure code bases due to its TUI.
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It sometimes gets mislabeled as a code navigation tool, but the original documentation describes it best as a "code browsing tool".
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Many tools can jump you to a definition or grep for patterns,
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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,
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ready to fire up your editor at just the spot.
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An example of its excelence is this project. The Cscope codebase used to be a total mess,
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fixing it would have been a lost cause, if not for Cscope itself. Well, Csope now.
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# Demo
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TODO: fill in
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# Interface
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<-- Tab -->
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+------------Message-------------+ +--------------------------------+
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A |+--------------+---------------+| |+------------------------------+|
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| || Input Window | Result window || || ||
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| |+--------------+ || ? || ||
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|| Mode Window | || ----> || Help ||
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% || | || <---- || ||
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|| | || ... || ||
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V |+--------------+---------------+| |+------------------------------+|
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+-----------Tool Tips------------+ +--------------------------------+
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# Improvements/Changes
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## User side
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+ renamed the program, because "cscope" is annoying to type
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+ improved gui /*pending*/
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+ GNU Readline integration (ie. VI/EMACS mode, command history) /*pending*/
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## To the code
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+ nuked autoconf, replaced with single Makefile
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+ removed "scanner.l" which seems to be an anchient version (and redundant copy) of "fscanner.l" forgotten by all
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+ encapsulated changes to the TUI into display.c
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+ removed macro hell put in place to allow compiling on a dead badger
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+ replaced repeated inline #ifdef KEY_\*-s with guaranteed definitions
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+ removed random commets giving tips for and refering to specific issues
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+ use stdbool instead of YES/NO macros
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+ saved kilobytes by stripping trailing whitespace
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# Future features / contributor wishlist
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+ providing support for other languages by integrating new lexers (e.g. ctag's)
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