[Ilugc] cscope help
- From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx (steve)
- Date: Wed Jan 13 12:39:02 2010
Hi Narendran,
On 01/13/2010 11:43 AM, narendran krishnan wrote:
All,
I have been using cscope to search keywords like function-calls using
vim editor. It has been very useful to me. The cscope_maps.vim was put
in the /usr/share/vim/vim61/plugin/cscope_maps.vim in Linux RedHat 9.
And it was working perfectly fine. Now I have shifted to a new working
place. I am trying to put the cscope_maps.vim in the same place ie
/usr/share/vim/vim70/plugin/cscope_maps.vim. I created the database
by doing cscope ?R. But when I open vim editor I am getting the error
message as ?E568: duplicate cscope database not added?. I tried adding
the contents into ~/.vimrc. I am getting the same error. The line no
that is giving error in the script is ?cs add cscope.out?. I am not
able to find out what is the problem. Can u please help on the same.
I am not quite sure I follow what you described, so, I'll just recommend what
can be considered the 'standard' way to do this:
a. Always add you personal vim plugins in your '$HOME/.vim/plugins' directory
rather than the system-wide dir (ie: /usr/share/vim...). Doing this ensures
that
you don't risk losing/overwriting your plugins on an update. Also, it is easier
to move you personal config/plugins between systems.
b. I personally prefer to comment out the entire 'default' configuration that
is
shipped on Red Hat systems, (ie: /etc/vimrc). On my fedora 12 system, there
appears to be a cscope specific block. This may be the case for you too, which
would explain the 'duplicate cscope database' message.
c. The cscope_maps.vim recognizes the $CSCOPE_DB variable, so, I prefer to
export this after creating/updating the cscope database.
d. Note that since cscope will maintain a reference to the file paths in the
manner that it receives them (ie: by default, when no other argument is given,
relative path starting from the current directory), if you need to also move
between directories, give cscope the complete paths, but collecting the files
using find and then using the '-i' option.
hmm, all of that was not too clear, so maybe it'll be better if I explain
through commands rather than words:
$ cp cscope_maps.vim ~/.vim/plugins/
$ rm /etc/vimrc # or just comment it all out
$ find `pwd` -type f -name "*.c" \
-o -name "*.cc" \
-o -name "*.cpp" \
-o -name "*.h" | sort > /tmp/cscope.files
$ cscope -bvq -f my_proj_db.out -i /tmp/cscope.files
# Look up man cscope for details of the options
$ export CSCOPE_DB=my_proj_db.out
$ vim my_proj.c
# Now i can move between any dir and the db references will work just fine
Obviously, I have put the find, cscope and export commands in a script that
will
take a db name and has a central store for all the dbs. I can send that to you
offline if you want me to.
cheers,
- steve
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