[recoll-user] Using recoll to index (and search) programming code?

Is anybody here using recoll to index software (for example, c code)?

(I'm using recoll version 1.6.1)  

I recently decided to try to index and then search nedit's c code in hopes of 
getting something a little bit more useful than ctags (maybe it's a 
limitation of nedit (my preferred editor), but although I can find the 
definition of a function, variable, or whatever using tags, I can't go the 
other direction to get to where the function is called from.

So I decided to try recoll.  For whatever reason (I couldn't find an obvious 
reason in the recoll.conf file), it would not index the .c and .h files.  So 
I renamed a few of them (actually, one each) to .c.txt and .h.txt.

With that, the indexing works, and seems reasonably helpful so far.

I just wondered:
   * is there some reason I shouldn't be trying to index code with recoll--I 
mean, maybe recoll will create ridiculously big databases or something 
because it is code?
   * is there a way to get recoll to index files ending in .c and .h other 
than by the renaming trick?  (In the recoll.conf file, indexallfilenames is 
set to 1.)

Thanks,
Randy Kramer

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