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101 lines
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# Csope
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Fork of Cscope version 15.9, with various improvements, because cscope is good and shall not be forgotten.
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While the original's 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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# Demo
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# Before/After
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## After
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## Before
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# Features
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#### Search for
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+ C symbol
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+ global definition
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+ assignments to specified symbol
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+ functions called by specified function
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+ functions calling specified function
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+ text string
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+ egrep pattern
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+ file
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+ files #including specified file
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#### ...and open with your editor.
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#### Batch change search results **interactively**.
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#### Save/load/pipe results.
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# Interface
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<-- Tab -->
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+--Version-----------------Case--+ +--------------------------------+
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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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# 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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# 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 tui
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+ GNU Readline/History integration
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## To the code
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+ Nuked autoconf, replaced with single Makefile
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+ Reorganized the control flow
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+ Encapsulated changes to the TUI into display.c
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+ Encapsulated searching into find.c
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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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+ Removed macro hell put in place to allow compiling on a dead badger
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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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+ ...and much more
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# Installation
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You will have to compile from source.
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After you made sure you have the following (dev) libraries installed:
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ncurses
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GNU Readline
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GNU History (should come with Readline)
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Just run:
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make
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This will yield the executable "csope", which you are free to do whatever with.
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Hint:
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cp csope /usr/bin/
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# Configuration
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## Readline
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The readline integratoin should be complete -please let us know if not-, except for your prompt being used, which could easily break the TUIs display.
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The rl_readline_name variable will be set to "Csope", so you may have conditional configurations in your .inputrc with the following format:
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$if Csope
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# <whatever>
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$endif
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## Colors
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All can be configured sucklessly under "config/colors.h". Hopefully the comments are self evident.
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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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