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 <[email protected]> > > 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? _______________________________________________ Bug-global mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-global
