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Article #620737Re: xref Nostalgia
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:10
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:10
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On Thu, 2018-03-01, John Levine wrote: > In article <slrnp9e76p.eu5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid>, > Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: >>That too, but I'm personally more interested in the time frame when >>tools I use today were created: the Unix shells, C compilers, >>vi/Emacs, troff ... > > I was writing C programs on Unix by late 1975 and I don't ever > remember using a program to do variable crossrers. (Note that I didn't mention such tools.) > Whatever it needed to do, grep was good enough, or the tag schemes > later written for emacs and vi. That's what I still do, 40 years later :-) Tags don't work too well with C++ (since you can have a dozen different functions called foo) but they /kind of/ work, and no better alternative has shown up as far as I'm concerned. I don't think I've seen anyone use cxref, ever. I once saw a guy use cscope, but that was just once, and I was too lazy to try it out. > Before that I did use the PDP-10 MACRO-10 cref program from time to > time, even though we had text editors that had some sort of string > search. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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