User's Guide to the Tycho Glimpse Browser

The Tycho Glimpse browser uses the glimpse program to search the sources for patterns. glimpse is a binary that is not shipped with the Tycho sources, you can get glimpse sources from http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu.

In Tycho, $TYCHO/makefile contains a glimpse rule that will update $TYCHO/.glimpse_index if glimpse is installed.

Note that the Glimpse browser uses the tcl exec command, which is unavailable on the Macintosh, so the Glimpse browser is not present on that platform. Note further that we have not tested the Glimpse browser under Windows.

If your Tycho distribution is located in a directory with a pathname that includes a space, then the glimpseindex command may fail. The workaround is to move Tycho to a pathname that does not include a space.

The Glimpse browser is a window that prompts for a pattern to search for. Clicking the Find button passes the pattern to the glimpse binary and then places the output into a Tycho index browser. If you click on the entry in the index browser, an editor is opened at the line where the pattern matched.

If $PTOLEMY/src/.glimpse_index is exists, then two additional buttons are created, one to set the glimpse_index to $PTOLEMY/src/.glimpse_index, one to set it to $TYCHO/.glimpse_index

The Update Tycho DB button will run make glimpse for you, and update $TYCHO/.glimpse_index.

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