Table of Content

• Description
• Features
• Highlights
• Example work flow
• Default Keymaps
  • Global hotkeys
  • Hotkeys in the "Find Window"
• Installation
  • Dependencies
  • Manual installation
  • Vundle installation
• Configuration
• Screenshots

Description

Powerful searching and navigation plugin that makes VIM an IDE based on GNU find, ripgrep( rg ), and cscope.

Features

• Text search in multiple files based on rg

  • Support literal or regex based patterns

  • Support user specified file types

  • Configurable search options (case-sensitive, whole-word, regex, recursive)

• cscope wrapper

  • Find all references to a symbol

  • Find all callers of a symbol (function only)

  • Find all callees of a symbol (function only)

• Call-tree generator

  • Caller tree of a symbol

  • Callee tree of a symbol

• Search history

  • The history of all search requests (cscope or rg) is preserved and displayed in QHistory buffer

  • The last browsed position (selected item in the QResult window) of each search is preserved; it makes the navigation between multiple search results much easier

• Integrated find utility

  • Integrated GNU find utility and preview; sort by modified time, file size, file names, and containing folders; open by associated programs

Highlights

Traditional grep-like search is one dimensional, and the subsequent grep results overwrites the previous one. This plugin essentially implements a two-level navigation tree

• The first level is the history of past search requests displayed in the QHistory window (as shown in the screenshot), in which the user can easily trace back what keywords/symbols have been searched earlier

• The second level is the traditional grep/cscope results displayed in the QResult window, where the user can navigate among the results of a particular search

• The user can easily navigate across the two levels

This approach is especially useful for studying and navigation inside a large or unfamiliar code base.

Example work flow

• Start a search with option configuration

  • <Leader>g to search a symbol with rg, configure file types, base directory, and other options (case, whole-word, etc.)

  • <Leader>s to search a symbol with cscope

• Search with last configured options

  • <Leader>l

• Navigate between search results inside the 'QResult' window

  • Double-click items in "QResulst" (search result) window to view the corresponding code

• Navigate between history search requests

  • Double-click items in "QHistory" (Search History) window for previous search results

Default Keymaps

Global hotkeys

Note the default key is '\'

Keymap	Command	Description
<Leader>s	:Isymb<CR>	Find symbol with
<Leader>d	:Idefi<CR>	Find global definition
<Leader>c	:Icall<CR>	Find callees
<Leader>b	:Icaby<CR>	Find callers
<Leader>f	:Ifile<CR>	Find files by name
<Leader>i	:Iincl<CR>	Find include files
<Leader>l	:Ilast<CR>	Find with last grep options
<Leader>g	:Igrep<CR>	Find with grep ( rg )
<Leader>r	:Icallertree<CR>	Draw caller tree of current symbol
<Leader>e	:Icalleetree<CR>	Draw callee tree of current symbol

Hotkeys in the "Find Window"

Keymap	Description
?	help message
<Double-Click>	Preview
v	Preview and move to the next file
v	Preview and move to the previous file
g	View in gvim
x	Open file with associated program
<Ctrl-Right>	Increase column width for file name field
<Ctrl-Left>	Decrease column width for file name field
<Leader><Leader>t	Sort by file time in decreased order
<Leader><Leader>T	Sort by file time in increased order
<Leader><Leader>s	Sort by file size in decreased order
<Leader><Leader>S	Sort by file size in increased order
<Leader><Leader>n	Sort by file name in decreased order
<Leader><Leader>N	Sort by file name in increased order
<Leader><Leader>f	Sort by folder name in decreased order
<Leader><Leader>F	Sort by folder name in increased order

Installation

Dependencies

• ripgrep ( rg ) recommended: can be downloaded from https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases

• cscope: can be downloaded from http://cscope.sourceforge.net/

• find: the windows version can be found under C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/find.exe if Git was installed

Manual installation

• Download this plugin from https://github.com/tristar2001/vim-cide

• Copy downloaded cide.vim to vimfiles/plugin/ folder

Vundle installation

• Prerequisite: install Vundle from https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim

• Insert the following line in .vimrc (or _vimrc), after "Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'", and before "call vundle#end()"

  Plugin 'tristar2001/vim-cide'

• Execute :PluginInstall

Configuration

• The following global variables can be configured from .vimrc or _vimrc .

Note this step is optional. And it's usually needed when any of the following commands (like find.exe) is not present in any searchable path.

" C-IDE configuration
if has("win32")
    let g:cide_shell_find     = 'C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/find.exe'
    let g:cide_shell_sort     = 'C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/sort.exe'
    let g:cide_shell_date     = 'date /T'
else
    " let g:cide_shell_find   = 'find'
    " let g:cide_shell_sort   = 'sort'
    " let g:cide_shell_date   = 'date +\"%a %D %T.%3N\"'
endif
let g:cide_shell_cscope       = 'cscope'
let g:cide_shell_grep         = 'rg'
let g:cide_grep_filespecs     = ["-tcxx", "-tcpp", "-tc", "-tvim", "-tmatlab", '-g "*"']

Screenshots