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Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code

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Re: Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code

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Post by obi1kenobi »

macjohnmcc wrote: post #2

A great tool for understanding source code is Source Trail. Supports parsing of C/C++, Python and Java currently. I love tools that help understand a large code base.

I take it you've used Source Trail? Are there any operations you particularly like using it for? Are there any you wish it could do, but it wasn't able to?

I built https://twitter.com/PredragGruevski/status/13447256045208780... just for fun as an exploration of this space, and I'm wondering where the limits are :)

Re: Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code

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Post by pokgak »

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.

Re: Cscope: A developer's tool for browsing source code

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Post by yeowMeng »

pokgak wrote: post #6

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.

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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