Indexing

[jakelstr]

Hi,
I was wandering if anybody has written a C Indexing servce, Like the one in Windows Vista.

 

[Salem]

> I was wandering if anybody has written a C Indexing servce,
To index all your C code so you can find your variables and functions quickly?

Or to just trawl the hard disk in general looking for information?


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[jakelstr]

It is to look through the HDD. Much like the search button in the Windows Start Menu, Except this is instant. Take a look at the Mac OS X and look at sherlock I think. This is what i want it to be.

 

[Salem]

Well the easy bit is traversing the directories looking for files.
Here are some examples

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi?answer=1046380353&id=1044780608

Extracting information from a variety of different file formats (.doc, .htm, .txt, .pdf etc) is another matter.

Then there is the matter of storing useful search terms in an easy to access manner, and associate a list of pathnames which each one.

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[xwb]

In unix it is called ctags. The table generated can be accessed by vi.

What plaform do you want this feature on?

 

[jakelstr]

Acctually, It is for an OS I am writing, but I want to test it in Windows as well.