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cscope is an amazingly useful tool for a C developer, even without using an associated editor plugin. I was very impressed by its speed years ago when I could instantly look up the definition of any symbol in the Linux kernel (IIRC - it's been a while since I've had occasion to use it).

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Agreed. Cscope is pretty damn fast & handy. I use it with the vim plugin when doing Android dev and it works well to quickly look-up definitions. What I find most impressive is how fast it builds the references. I can essentially build a cscope.out file for the entire Android project in under 4 minutes. The only thing I've had trouble with is getting the Java tags to work. Anybody else know how to set that up?

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