How to let cscope use absolute path in cscope.out file?

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Haiyuan Zhang picture Haiyuan Zhang · Feb 2, 2010 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

Everytime after load a cscope.out in Vim, I need to change Vim's "pwd" to the same directory as cscope.out file is under, which might be due to that cscope use relative path when generating tag file. So if there is a way to force cscope to use absolute path in its tag file - cscope.out, then it will be regardless of whether the pwd of your Vim session is the same as the directory that cscope.out file is under.

Answer

Neha Karanjkar picture Neha Karanjkar · Apr 13, 2015

You can ask vim to interpret the paths in cscope.out relative to the location of the cscope.out file by setting the cscoperelative option. From :help csre:

If 'cscoperelative' is set, then in absence of a prefix given to cscope (prefix is the argument of -P option of cscope), basename of cscope.out location (usually the project root directory) will be used as the prefix to construct an absolute path. The default is off. Note: This option is only effective when cscope (cscopeprg) is initialized without a prefix path (-P).

Examples

: set csre
: set nocsre

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