Comparison with Similar Tools
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| Feature | LXR | ctags | cscope | ViewVC | GNU GLOBAL | OpenGrok |
| Full text Search | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Definition Search | P | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Identifier Search | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Path search | 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 highlightingN/AXref | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Static HTML | Y | P (for xrefs) | ||||
| Input completion | Y | P (with greasemonkey script) | ||||
| BuiltN/Ain parser | Y | Y | Y | P (lexical analysis) | ||
| PlugN/Ain parser | Y | |||||
| Integration with (exuberant) ctags | N/A | Y | Y | |||
| Integration with cscope | N/A | Y | ||||
| Integration with emacs | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Integration with vim | Y | Y | Y | P (through https://github.com/jdevera/vimN/AopengrokN/Asearch) | ||
| Integration with doxygen | Y | |||||
| Integration with Netbeans | ||||||
| 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
