Comparison with Similar Tools
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| Feature | LXR | ctags | cscope | ViewVC | GNU GLOBAL | OpenGrok | Woboq |
| Full text Search | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Definition Search | P | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Identifier Search | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Path search | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| History Search | Y | ||||||
| Caller/Callee Search | Y | P | |||||
| RegExp Search | Y | Y | P (only wildcards) | ||||
| Shows matching lines | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Hierarchical Search | Y | Y | |||||
| query syntax like AND, OR, field: | Y | ||||||
| Incremental update | P | Y | Y | ||||
| RSS Feed | Y | Y | |||||
| Syntax highlighting-Xref | Y | P | Y | Y | |||
| Interface for SCM | Y | Y | Y | ||||
| open source | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Usable URLs | Y | N/A | N/A | Y | Y | Y | |
| Individual file download | N/A | N/A | Y | N/A | Y | ||
| Changes at directory level | N/A | N/A | P | N/A | Y | ||
| Multi language support | P | Y | P | N/A | Y | Y | |
| User interface | WEB | CLI | CLI | WEB | WEB / CLI | WEB / CLI | WEB / CLI |
| Static HTML | Y | P (for xrefs) | Y | ||||
| Input completion | Y | P (with greasemonkey script) | |||||
| Built-in parser | Y | Y | Y | P (lexical analysis) | |||
| Plug-in parser | Y | ||||||
| Integration with (exuberant) ctags | N/A | Y | Y | ||||
| Integration with cscope | N/A | Y | |||||
| Integration with emacs | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Integration with vim | Y | Y | Y | P (through https://github.com/jdevera/vim-opengrok-search) | |||
| Integration with doxygen | Y | ||||||
| Integration with Netbeans | |||||||
| Integration with Eclipse | Y | ||||||
| Integration with less | Y | Y | |||||
| Integration with bash | Y | ||||||
| Integration with idutils | Y | ||||||
| Integration with Elvis | Y | Y |
Legend:
- Y : Yes the feature is present
- P : the feature may be partly present
- N/A : not applicable
