Table of Contents

Cscope layer

Table of ContentsClose

cscope.jpg

1 Description

This layer provides bindings for using Cscope and PyCscope in Spacemacs.

Cscope provides indexing and searching capabilities for C and C++ code. PyCscope extends these capabilities for Python code as well. See here for a comparison between Cscope and other similar tools (such as gtags).

2 Install

2.1 Layer

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add cscope to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

2.2 Cscope

Install Cscope through your package manager, or download it from the website and build it from source.

From package manager (for example, Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install cscope

From source:

tar xvf cscope-15.8b
cd cscope-15.8b
./configure
make
sudo make install

2.3 PyCscope

Install PyCscope through pip:

pip install pycscope

3 Usage

Before using any helm-cscope commands, remember to create a Cscope index file. Do it by running the command cscope-index-files for C and C++ projects, or the command cscope/run-pycscope for Python projects, bound to SPC m g i.

4 Key bindings

Key Binding Description
SPC m g c find which functions are called by a function
SPC m g C find where a function is called
SPC m g d find global definition of a symbol
SPC m g e search regular expression
SPC m g f find a file
SPC m g F find which files include a file
SPC m g i create Cscope index
SPC m g r find references of a symbol
SPC m g x search text

Author: Sylvain Benner

Created: 2016-10-03 Mon 00:55

Validate