How to use cscope?

Question

I am using cscope to get familiar with all the keywords used in socket programming. I went to the directory with c files. I used cscope. and then I searched for AF_INET. I got t

Answer 1

To exit from cscope interactive prompt, type Ctrl-d. If you just want to rebuild cscope's database, and not invoke cscope's interactive prompt, pass it the -b option. I usually invoke cscope as cscope -bcqR.

As for jumping around in vim using cscope, it really depends on your vim config.

Most probably, jump to tag (Ctrl-]) will use cscope first, then ctags (see :help cst and :help csto). Use Ctrl-T to go back.

There are some useful mappings for cscope that you can find by typing :help cscope-suggestions in vim. After adding those mappings to your .vimrc, you will be able to jump to symbols using Ctrl-_ s, the calling function using Ctrl-_ c, etc...

You can access vim's cscope documentation by typing :help cscope.