Is there an IDE supporting C++ with REALLY smart searching of references? By ‘reference’ I mean usage of a class (or its member), variable, function in the whole Project or Workspace.
There’s lots of IDE providing it. Some of them seem just to search for the text with same name giving lots of stuff, others are smarter and check the context (like class boundaries, namespace) but aren’t accurate enough.
The best I’ve tried so far was Visual SlickEdit, but still there’s more to wish.
class C1
{
int foo;
};
class C2
{
int foo;
};
For example in this situation when searching for C1::foo references I DON’T want C2::foo to be shown too.
So, is there an IDE that would be so smart?
Edit2
10x everybody for the answers so far.
I tried Eclipse, reference searching seems relatively good, but it takes it 20 minutes to index medium size project and 4 times of 5 it runs out of memory and crashes. I tried increasing it and some other advice and it got a little better, but still quite slow and annoying with these crashes.
I tried KDevelop3, but the feature mentioned in this question is not very advanced – seems to be just very advanced grep based text searching.
Edit4
KDevelop4 – I tried to make it work, but latest beta it’s quite unusable for custom makefile projects, I was unable to do anything with it.
Edit5
I was surprised, but QT Creator did really well in my tests. It doesn’t seem to create some tag/index files, but somehow manages to show very precisely the usage of variable/functions/classes. Unfortunately it seems to not work very correctly with templates, when following definitions of functions.
None of the mentioned IDEs could compete Visual SlickEdit in working with references, virtual functions, etc. QT Creator was the closest though, so I will choose it as an answer to my question.
I think Qt-Creator can help you. There few new features added in new preview 2.0.