‘E568: duplicate cscope database not added’

TLDR: $ vim sample.txt line 45: E568: duplicate cscope database not added Press ENTER or type command to continue Fix: Add ‘set nocscopeverbose‘ to .vimrc

Detailed: My primary editor for writing code is Vim (http://www.vim.org/) combined with couple of plugins. The cscope_maps.vim (http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_maps.vim) plugin is immensely helpful in code navigation. However, there is an issue with that plugin, particularly in this part of the code. 40 " add any cscope database in current directory 41 if filereadable("cscope.out") 42 cs add cscope.out 43 " else add the database pointed to by environment variable 44 elseif $CSCOPE_DB != "" 45 cs add $CSCOPE_DB 46 endif 47 48 " show msg when any other cscope db added 49 set cscopeverbose

To use that plugin, one has to build cscope database on codebase, details of which are given here (http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html) . Imagine if your codebase is like this: $ project1/a/b/c $ project2/x/y/z You have created a cscope database in the root directory of each project. Vim has to be configured to recursively look for cscope database up the directory until the root of project1. I think out-of-the-box Vim comes with this support (not sure). If $CSCOPE_DB is defined and points else where (say cscope database within project2), the search gets messed up even further. Opening a file in Vim would then throw following (or similar looking) errors. $ vim sample.txt line 45: E568: duplicate cscope database not added Press ENTER or type command to continue Above error means that Vim is compiled with a cscope module and adding another cscope database (line 45) is akin to opening a second database (duplicate). Vim complains. But it is like a warning. You can check what is the first cscope database added/connected using ‘:cscope show‘ command. Easiest fix is to suppress the warnings. Change line 49 to ‘set nocscopeverbose‘ or add it in .vimrc file (latter worked for me).

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