vim cannot connect to cscope database

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I have opensuse 11.4 installed. Vim is version 7. Now I normally use it to browse the linux kernel source. So I generated the cscope database inside a directory within my home folder i.e. /home/aijazbaig1/cscope_DB/ and I got 3 files viz. cscope.out, cscope.po.out and cscope.in.out besides the cscope.files file which contains a list of all the relevant files which I want to search.

Additionally I have added the following to my .bashrc:

CSCOPE_DB=/home/aijazbaig1/cscope_DB/cscope.out
export CSCOPE_DB

But when I do a :cscope show from within vim it says there are no connections. Can anyone please let me know what is going wrong.

Keen to hear from you,

cscope ctags tags vim database
6 Answers

You need to add a "cscope connection", like this in vim: 

:cscope add $PATH_TO_CSCOPE.out

See :help cs for more examples.

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I ran into a similar problem with no cscope connections on ubuntu 18.04, then I discovered my .vimrc file does not load the CSCOPE_DB variable. Looked a little around and found a solution.

You can just copy this directly in to your .vimrc file.

Part of the code loads your cscope file from your directory. The keybinds are just a nice bonus. Hope this helps.

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