Tom Lane wrote: > I wouldn't recommend trying to use a standard FTS to index code: > code is not a natural language and the kinds of searches you usually > want to perform are a lot different. As an example, I glimpse for > "foo" when looking for references to a function foo, but "^foo" > when seeking its definition (this relies on the coding conventions > about function layout, of course). An FTS doesn't think start-of-line > is significant so it can't do that. +1. The nice thing about a tool that understands code is that you can query it in ways that make sense to code. For example I can search for "all files that include foo.h" or "all callers of function bar" or "all occurences of the symbol baz". I use cscope for this, which integrates nicely into my text editor (vim), and others have told me they use kscope which puts it inside a nice GUI window, if you care about such things. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/5ZYLFMCVHXC "I would rather have GNU than GNOT." (ccchips, lwn.net/Articles/37595/) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
