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

Kevin Bowling kevin.bowling at kev009.com
Sat Apr 6 15:48:57 AEST 2024


On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM Marcus Clark <marcus.e.clark at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>
> Wikipedia has a brief page on cscope, which has a link  to
> https://cscope.sourceforge.net/history.html
> written by Harold Bamford, in which he talks about the
> early days of cscope at Bell Labs and its inventor Joe Steffan.
>
> I wondered if anyone can add any interesting information about using
> cscope on their projects or anything about its development.

I used it a bit when coming up with FreeBSD kernel development 8 or so
years ago.  These days I just tend to use 'ripgrep' which has been a
game changer for me when working across the repo sprawls of a
corporation.. having outrageous speed and not having to maintain an
index is really the winning ticket for my millennial brain.

> -Marcus.


More information about the TUHS mailing list