[TUHS] Does anyone have any memories of using cscope that they care to share?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday,  4 April 2024 at 19:07:34 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:37:22PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed.  It was an essential tool when I was developing code.  It just
>>> seems funny to be asked about "memories" or "interesting".  At an only
>>> slightly different level, it would be like asking the same question
>>> about, say, sh.
>>
>> Using C since the 70s (5/6/7/CP-M/SysIII/SysV/FreeBSD/Linux/Mac/etc), and
>> I've never heard of it?
>>
>> Now installed on the Mac to see what it can do...
>
> It knows everything and lets you see that fast.  make cscope was a thing
> in my makefiles for decades.

Indeed.  The main FreeBSD kernel Makefile also includes a cscope
target, and also TAGS (for Emacs), which is similar.

Greg
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