Given that this is how the CDT has always
worked, and that few people have complained about it, I’ll dispute the
statement that “behavior like the one above will actually make most people
believe that CDT is broken”.
Thanks for the feedback, though, and please
make sure you capture it in a bugzilla entry for future reference.
From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Erik Nilsson
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 9:19
AM
To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Bug 63927-
doubt
First impression: Oh!
I think I understand why this has to be this way from a technical point of
view. But from a users perspective it makes no sense. Maybe if you at least
changed the wording of the C/C++ search dialog box so it makes clear that it
only searches for public variables it would seem a bit better. But not
entirely, because chances are that you don't actually want that behaviour.
Maybe you could add a check box to automatically do a text search of C and C++
source files after the initial index search is done. But that makes the meaning
of the C/C++-search function even cloudier. Perhaps if you called it
"C/C++-index search" people would at least have chance to figure out
what that dialog actually does.
Actually, perhaps the Index just isn't the best tool for doing a good C/C++
search function. I would naivley think the procedure would be something like:
1) Text search all interesting files (.c .cpp whatnot) for word occurence 2)
parse the files matching to figure out what that word actually is in terms of
C/C++ 3) filter accoring to user preferences, variables, methods etc 4) ... 5)
profit
I think the most important thing is that you must be able to depend on the
search function, behaviour like the one above will actually make most people
(everyone not very accustomed with the inner workings of CDT) believe that CDT
is broken.
Regards,
Erik Nilsson
2007/6/1, Doug Schaefer <DSchaefer@xxxxxxx>:
The index only captures global variables that can be
referenced between files. Capturing every variable everywhere would really slow
things down. You can always use Text search, while slower, will find all text.
#include <iostream>
int highVal;
// ** (A) **
int
main(int
argc, char
**argv) {
std::cout << "\n";
char inp[8]; // ** (B) **
std::cin >> inp; // ** (C) **
}
In the
C/C++ index view only highVal and main are seen. inp is not seen
in the
index. Hence C/C++ search of inp is not yielding any results.
Please
let me know if it is OK for the indexer not to index inp.
Thanks,
Ravi
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