Hey,

I've been using Eclipse as my Linux C IDE for a few months now. I'm not a big fan, but I hate it less than other Linux graphical IDEs, so Eclipse it is.

My big problem with it is that our codebase is pretty huge, and the indexer tends to choke on it. I would frequently see out of memory errors--and even when it completes, it takes a lot longer to run than say cscope or vim tags do.

First of all, is there any way to incorporate cscope/tags into Eclipse? That would be a pretty cool plugin--using cscope information instead of the CDT indexer. And secondly, any suggestions for managing this?

Thanks,
Nathan

That's what they get for writing it in Java. Are you talking about the C/C++ indexer or general indexer? I don't really trust either, mostly because "find" sometimes brings up cached versions of files which leads me to make symbol changes more than once and the indexers trip over the pipes I have in my project directory. Unfortunately the "find" function is what I use it for the most, but I try not to do anything really serious since the IDE somehow manages to put one of a few assorted previous selections or deletions into the clipboard instead of what you're trying to cut/copy if you don't give it at least 2 seconds to catch up. Not to mention the fact that it's deleted files entirely for no apparent reason a few times. Maybe you just need a new IDE? I still build and test in a terminal: I only use Eclipse for editing. There are millions of plug-ins out there for Eclipse, though.
ta0kira

Yeah, I'm talking about the CDT indexer.

I am certainly open to a new IDE. The problem is that Eclipse works mostly like I expect it to work, so it had a very low learning curve, yet I still feel productive when using it (except when the indexer is busy crashing, of course). None of the other KDE-based IDEs I've tried come as close, and though I know plenty of hardcore C programmers use vim or possibly emacs, I've never come to more than an uneasy truce with emacs and, though I like vim, I have trouble using it for large projects without it getting in my way more than helping me.

Thanks for posting!

Did you happen to find anything? Do you know if there's a plug-in that will find everywhere I assign something of one type to another type? I'd like to find everywhere that I assign or compare char* to std::string.
ta0kira

Nope. I did file a bug, so let's see what happens

I don't know of a plugin that will do what you describe. cscope might be able to do that, but I'm not sure.