CommandLineSearch

CommandLineSearch allows you to add custom search providers to the CodeSearch-Plugin easily.

Compatible commandline tools

To work with CodeSearch-Plugin, the commandline search utility must:

• be executable from the command line, taking the search term as an argument
• return results, one per line
• each line must include a path to a file, a line number, and a code snippet.
• each line must be machine-parsable using a simple regular expression

Example

I have a proprietary search tool for my code repository that works like this:

jessewilson$ /home/jessewilson/bin/codesearch /Repository/Projects HelloWorld
/Repository/Projects/GlazedLists/source/ca/odell/glazedlists/HelloWorld.java:12:public class HelloWorld {
/Repository/Projects/GlazedLists/source/ca/odell/glazedlists/HelloWorld.java:14:   public HelloWorld() {
/Repository/Projects/GlazedLists/source/ca/odell/glazedlists/HelloWorld.java:23:      System.out.println("HelloWorld");
/Repository/Projects/Riders/source/com/publicobject/Simulation2007.java:100:  // see this is a HelloWorld example of the API that

To configure this search tool, I use the following settings:

• Executable /home/jessewilson/bin/codesearch
• Arguments /Repository/Projects
• Regular Expression ([^\:]+)\\:([^\:]+)\:(.*)
• File Path Match 1
• Line Number Match 2
• Line Value Match 3