I am facing a weird problem. While browsing the C code of a project, the “Find this text string:” output results in a positive match, but the text is invisible [only the search results are invisible and not the menu]. The cursor moves up and down the list of results. Some of the lines are visible sometimes as you can see in the screen-shot below.
I did try to change the background color [from black to white], removed any instance of cscope.out in the project folder, rebuilt the database.
The system is FC4.
The cscope version in use is 15.7a.
Is this a known bug? Any solutions?
Screen-shots:
The screen-shots are taken using Putty. Same behavior is seen on gnome-terminal, konsole.
http://img2.pict.com/05/11/00/2823072/0/cscope01.jpg
http://img2.pict.com/53/0e/38/2823075/0/cscope02.jpg
P.S: Also posted in ubuntu forums – http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1402448
Well, found the solution.
The problem is with the format of the file.
If the files have ctrl+M at the end of the line, cscope will have issues with them.
Do a dos2unix conversion on all the test files in the directory.
This should solve the problem.