Cscope problem - Search results invisible

Question

I am facing a weird problem. While browsing the C code of a project, the "Find this text string:" output results in a positive match, but the text is invisible [only the search results are invisible and not the menu]. The cursor moves up and down the list of results. Some of the lines are visible sometimes as you can see in the screen-shot below. I did try to change the background color [from black to white], removed any instance of cscope.out in the project folder, rebuilt the database.

The system is FC4. The cscope version in use is 15.7a.

Is this a known bug? Any solutions?

Screen-shots: The screen-shots are taken using Putty. Same behavior is seen on gnome-terminal, konsole.

http://img2.pict.com/05/11/00/2823072/0/cscope01.jpg

http://img2.pict.com/53/0e/38/2823075/0/cscope02.jpg

P.S: Also posted in ubuntu forums - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1402448

Answer 1

I'm seeing the same problem; incredibly annoying. Sometimes you can make the results visible by resizing the window (which causes a redraw, I assume).

Answer 2

Well, found the solution. The problem is with the format of the file. If the files have ctrl+M at the end of the line, cscope will have issues with them.

Do a dos2unix conversion on all the test files in the directory. This should solve the problem.

Answer 3

I had fixed similar problem in my Centos system by removing some cscope setings in .vimrc. I assume this was caused by a mismatch between settings in .vimrc and ~/.vim/plugin/cscope_maps.vim

I removed the below settings in my .vimrc:

"if has('cscope')
"  set cscopetag cscopeverbose

"  if has('quickfix')
"    set cscopequickfix=s-,c-,d-,i-,t-,e-
"  endif

"  cnoreabbrev csa cs add
"  cnoreabbrev csf cs find
"  cnoreabbrev csk cs kill
"  cnoreabbrev csr cs reset
"  cnoreabbrev css cs show
"  cnoreabbrev csh cs help

"endif