On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Suresh Govindachar <sgovindac...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> > Hello, > > Tools such as tags, cscope, global, idutils etc. for spelunking code > essentially involve creating an index of the files in the project and using > this index. Tools like vim's :vimgrep work harder without the benefit of > an > index. Some of the tools are restricted to C code only (with maybe some > kludged support for C++). And people continue to work at making new > indexers (eg, http://silentbob.sourceforge.net/). > > Anyway, given Vim's connection to google, I am wondering if Bram has ideas > for an indexer that would work nicely with Vim and help spelunk code in > various languages. > > If there aren't already any on-going project with such a goal, Bram please > consider proposing such projects. > > Thanks, > > --Suresh Steve Yegge of Google talked at the Northwest C++ Users' Group about an indexing tool like you describe. Unfortunately, it was intended for Google's internal codebase. There were vague noises about making it more widely available, but I haven't heard anything more. http://www.nwcpp.org/index.php/component/content/article/34-meetings/52-september-2010-meeting -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
