Being a C programmer, I always missed not having support for cscope "out of the box" in my vanilla Emacs. It is unfortunate that xcscope.el is not part of Emacs proper. Here is a quick and dirty means to alleviate this drawback and make cscope "one another" search engine (similar to rgrep etc). This bug is a continuation of my earlier bug#13459. Ideally I want to be able to see the "function context" in search results. See earlier screenshot http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=grep-proof-of-concept-cf-cscope.png;att=3;bug=13549 I have more ideas on how the symbol searches could be imporved in Emacs. I will document these in future bug reports. ---------------------------------------------------------------- For a first cut, the following works. Update `compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist' as below.