README.md

Atom editor cscope package

Navigate through sources with cscope database

It is based on atom-cscope atom package by Amitabh Das. It uses etch to implement user interface, it is rewritten in JavaScript and it implements history correctly.

Usage

• Install cscope.
• Generate cscope database in each project directory that should be searched:

find . -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h" > cscope.files
cscope -qRb -i cscope.files

• In the linux kernel sources root directory just call

make cscope

• Press ctrl-shift-" to go to the definition of the symbol under cursor or the selected text.
• Press ctrl-shift-. to open cscope menu.
• The module tracks the history of the visited symbols. Use ctrl-shift-[ and ctrl-shift-] to go back and forth.