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

[Michael Sullivan]

Before I start working my way thru the source, I was wondering about this Bokin 
model: if I'm able to talk my company into contributing money, does that 
provide incentive to the Global developers to implement the missing features?  
If so, how much of a donation is enough?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Michael Sullivan <address@hidden>
> Date: 2-August-2010 10:50:58 AM; Mon, 2-Aug
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Fwd: Indexing c/c++ comments and text files
> 
> 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?