Re: Indexing c/c++ comments and text files

[Michael Sullivan]

Did anyone have any thoughts about adding these two features -- I think 
everyone could really benefit from them.

On 25-Jul-2010, at 8:04 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:

> This is a message that was originally started on the help list, but it was 
> recommended that the discussion move to the bug list as it contains a request 
> for two features:
> 
> Comment Indexing
> ----------------
> Comments in files parsed by the c/c++ parser (as identified in the langmap) 
> are ignored.  I'm wondering if it would be possible to add a command line 
> option to not skip the symbols in comments.
> 
> Text File Indexing
> ------------------
> Text files that potentially contain useful things to search for (e.g. MIB 
> files) don't appear to have a parser (as identified in the langmap).  I'm 
> wondering if it would be possible to add a text parser that could be used to 
> simply index every word in those files.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Michael Sullivan <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Did anyone have any thoughts about adding these two features -- I think 
>> everyone could really benefit from them.
>> 
>> On 19-Jul-2010, at 9:55 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>> 
>>> I only cited id-utils in my first message so that you could see an example 
>>> where another tags system had a capability that appears to be missing 
>>> natively in global.  However, I'm not actually trying to generate an 
>>> id-utils database -- I consider the gtags/global database, tools, and 
>>> output to be superior.
>>> 
>>> Instead, I have two different problems that can be potentially solved in 
>>> different ways:
>>> 
>>> Comments
>>> --------
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> Text Files
>>> ----------
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> On 19-Jul-2010, at 9:24 PM, Shigio YAMAGUCHI wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You can use the functions of id-utils by the -I option of gtags and global.
>>>> Is it insufficient?
>>>> 
>>>>> I would like to instruct global/gtags to index c/c++ comments (and 
>>>>> potentially other text files).  For example, the following c++ comment 
>>>>> text isn't currently indexed by global/gtags, but I would like it to be:
>>>>> 
>>>>> // SOME_IMPORTANT_ENUM_1
>>>>> "Some corresponding text 1",
>>>>> 
>>>>> // SOME_IMPORTANT_ENUM_2
>>>>> "Some corresponding text 2",
>>>>> 
>>>>> etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The comment text refers to symbols that are indexed elsewhere and I want 
>>>>> a cross-reference search to return references to the comment lines above.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I used to use id-utils, I was able to achieve this by telling it 
>>>>> that c/c++ files were actually text (e.g. set those extensions up to use 
>>>>> the text parser in id-utils' langmap).  Although I found a langmap 
>>>>> setting in the .globalrc file, it doesn't appear to have a "text" parser.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a possibility of adding something like this?