Re: [Lxr-general] Can LXR cross-reference a c# codebase?

[Malcolm B. <mal...@gm...>]

On 11/27/06, Lewis Evans <le...@le...> wrote:
> If there's a single physical directory housing many different c# projects,
> can LXR/glimpse provide a cross-reference search for them?
> Would be most useful for searching multiple c# projects from one place.

LXR can index any source code supported by Exuberant Ctags - and C# is
supported by recent versions.

At the moment there's some missing configuration glue for C#.  The
file that needs to be updated is lib/LXR/Lang/generic.conf, and then
the filename <> language mapping in lxr.conf would need updating.

As a first stab, I'd copy the C or C++ stanzas in generic.conf to make
a C# section, and see what sort of results you get.

Once LXR is modified to understand C#, then indexing multiple projects
in a single directory is no problem at all - you can either treat them
as separate projects searchable through one interface, or as parts of
a larger project in which case hyperlinks will go between them.

Cheers,

Malcolm