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@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +mkid TODO - Future directions + +* Bring all code into conformance with GNU project coding standards. + - Use command-line arguments, not the name of the program in argv[0] + to determine lid's behavior + - Use getopt_long () to parse command-line arguments. + +* Portability + - Fix filenames.c to handle non-UNIX file names properly. + - Fix sizeof (int) == sizeof (long) assumptions. + - The configure script tests for lots of things, but the code doesn't + use all of the results that it should. + +* lid + - change the name of the program to something a bit more + descriptive, e.g., "findid". + - use "long long" (if the compiler supports it) integer comparisons + in find_number(). + - generalize the command-line interface for different behaviors. + User passes a command-format string for operating on the results + of a query: + %t = token, %f = crunched file list, %F = uncrunched file list + Recommend the following aliases to emulate old behavior: + alias lid="findid -e 'echo %t %f'" + alias eid="findid -e 'vi +/\\<%t\\>/ %F'" # for vi users + alias gid="findid -e 'egrep \\<%t\\> %F'" + +* mkid & lid + - store & retrieve floating point literals + +* mkid + - add a recursive file tree walker, so a complete list of file names + need not be supplied. + - Store attributes with symbols: type, func, variable struct-tag + enum-tag, keyword, etc. Store caller/callee relationships between + identifiers. Indicate which files have defns vs. uses. This info + is needed to support a cscope interface. + +* cscope + - add a cscope work-alike query interface (this is being done by + Maureen Lecuona <lecuona@paul.rutgers.edu>) + +* grep + - Hack GNU grep to use a mkid database for hints about which files to + search. + + +Local Variables: +mode: text +fill-column: 75 +End: |