cscope lets you search for arbitrary text strings and egrep patterns as well. "The fuzzy parser supports C, but is flexible enough to be useful for C++ and J

cscope lets you search for arbitrary text strings and egrep patterns as well. "The fuzzy parser supports C, but is flexible enough to be useful for C++ and Java, and for use as a generalized 'grep database' (use it to browse large text documents!)"[0] Exuberant Ctags supports 41 languages[1], incl. javascript, Tcl, Ruby, TeX, awk, etc. I was wondering if there are obvious ack killer features or areas where it's remarkably superior. [0] http://cscope.sourceforge.net/ http://cscope.sourceforge.net/ [1] http://ctags.sourceforge.net/languages.html http://ctags.sourceforge.net/languages.html