Perry-
Does cscope support PHP?
Thanks for the link
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Perry Smith" <pedz@easesoftware.com>
To: "Guy Rouillier" <guyr-ml1@burntmail.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] I want to search my project source code
> On Oct 28, 2007, at 12:59 AM, Guy Rouillier wrote:
>
> > Matthew Wilson wrote:
> >> I have a lot of code -- millions of lines at this point, written
> >> over the last 5 years. Everything is in a bunch of nested folders.
> >> At least once a week, I want to find some code that uses a few
> >> modules,
> >> so I have to launch a find + grep at the top of the tree and then
> >> wait
> >> for it to finish.
> >> I wonder if I could store our source code in a postgresql table and
> >> then use full text searching to index. Then I hope I could run a
> >> query
> >> where I ask for all files that use modules X, Y, and Z.
> >
> > DBMSs are great tools for the right job, but IMO this is not the
> > right job. I can't see how a database engine, with all it's
> > transactional overhead and many other layers, will ever beat a
> > simple grep performance-wise. I've used Eclipse for refactoring,
> > but having done it once, I'm sticking with grep.
>
> This is exactly what cscope is good for.
>
> http://cscope.sourceforge.net/
>
> I've used it since the early 90's. I do level 3 support for really
> big companies. If you are an emacs fan, its hooked in to it as well.
>
> You want to use the -q option. If it is a million lines of code, its
> going to take a while. It pseudo-parses the code (some tricky
> constructs will confuse it) and builds a very simple database file.
> I think it uses Berkeley's DB file. After that, finding all the
> occurrences of foo is a few seconds.
>
> If you want to find just definitions (like where is foo defined),
> then use ctags or etags. There is exuberant ctags here:
>
> http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
>
> Perry Smith ( pedz@easesoftware.com )
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