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 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
> --------
> 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 Files
> ----------
> 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.
> 
> 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?
>