How to use cscope?

Question

I am using cscope to get familiar with all the keywords used in socket programming. I went to the directory with c files. I used cscope. and then I searched for AF_INET. I got t

Answer 1

I agree that cscope documentation is not very clear.

Use tab to move to the interactive part. Type your symbol name in “find this C symbol” or “Find this egrep pattern” and validate pressing RETURN.

If you want to call it from vim, type :help if_cscop.txt; hoping it helps!

:cscope add your_cscope_database
:cscope find s [your_symbol]

This will make a new quickfix list. use :cn and :cp to navigate, :cnf and :cpf to navigate from file to file in the results, and :colder and :cnewer to restore previous quickfix lists.