Re: LYNX-DEV CHANGES 2.8.1dev.5

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> From: "T.E.Dickey" <address@hidden> 
> > I've seen cscope, and it's a bit clumsier than what I do myself in this 
> > case - I do a 'find' to get a list of the filenames, pipe that into my 
> > directory editor, select all of the files (or the .c & .h files) and grep 
> > for the specific words piped into vile (vi-like-emacs) - then walk through 
> > the 
> > changes in the editor). 
> >  
> > (sounds like a lot, but it's faster to type than to explain ;-) 
>  
> The thing I like about cscope over grepping is that cscope won't worry 
> about words within other words or words in comments (unless of course 
for words-within-words:
        fgrep -w
(for GNU grep) does nicely.  I tend to change the comments anyway (but try
to leave the change log alone ;-)

> you want it to worry about them).  And you don't HAVE to go into the 
> editor - you can just do a global change if you are certain that's what 
> you want.  But I do sometime similar to what you describe for certain 
> types of changes myself.  I suspect if I broke down and started using 
> emacs or crisp I could make some of these types of changes much easier. 
> But I am happy with nvi ... 
well, at least you're not saying that vim is the only way to accomplish
this (no problem).  But cscope seems a little overrated from the little
I'd used it.  (combining simpler tools works better for me).

> Larry W. Virden                 INET: address@hidden 

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