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

[Michael Sullivan]

I take it from the complete lack of response that I'm alone in my desire for 
these features.

I guess I'll wade into the source myself and see if I can add them for my own 
use.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Michael Sullivan <address@hidden>
> Date: 29-July-2010 12:51:51 PM; Thu, 29-Jul
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Indexing c/c++ comments and text files
> 
> 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?
>