Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code

Re:Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code by pokgak on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:35PM (#25610144)

What would be the workflow when using such tools like this or Source Trail? I've used cscope once while I'm testing out vim as my main text editor a bit.

Nowadays I'm using the global search feature of vscode for code exploration. Combined with the available language server for each language, it seems to work well enough for me currently.

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Re:Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code by yeowMeng on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:44PM (#25610183)

Cscope in vim to jump between caller and callee (examine relationship). See where symbols are used. Jump to global definition. Could not live without cscope!

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Re:Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code by fis on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:57PM (#25610256)

Yes this is how I use it and I love it. I think some IDEs havee similar capability but for vim users cscope is an great way to understand large code bases by quickly jumping through callchains. There's a 'Using Cscope with Vim' tutorial on the page that covers it.

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Re:Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code by joelthelion on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:03AM (#25611205)

Vim now also supports the more powerful vscode language servers. If you haven't done so already, I encourage you to give them a try.

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Re:Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code by harry8 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:34AM (#25611825)

Vim Youcompleteme plugin with libclang support does this better for me. Have you compared?

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