Top "Ctags" questions

Ctags is a program that generates an index (or tag) file of names found in source and header files of various programming languages.

Vim and Ctags tips and tricks

I have just installed Ctags (to help with C++ development) with my Vim (or rather gVim), and would like to …

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cscope or ctags why choose one over the other?

I primarily use vim / gvim as an editor and am looking at using a combination of lxr (the Linux Cross …

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VIM set ctags in .vimrc

I have my projects in /srv/http/dev folder. I generated ctags file for one project: $ ctags -R --languages=php . …

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Vim - ctags: tag not found

I want to use Ctags for a Zend framework project. I executed this command : ctags -R ./* ../ZendFramework/*to create a …

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Get ctags in vim to go to definition, not declaration

I'm having the problem that ctags in vim/gvim takes me to a forward declaration a lot of times instead …

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Installing Exuberant Ctags on Windows (Vista and XP)

I want to use Exuberant Ctags on Vista (and probably the XP laptop) at work; no choice about the OS. …

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Vim: Difficulty setting up ctags. Source in subdirectories don't see tags file in project root

I'm trying to get setup with (exuberant) ctags on Vim today and am having difficulty getting it to work properly. …

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How to automatically update tag file in vim?

I use vim C++ tag file for navigation using Ctrl-]. The problem is whenever some file gets modified, the links …

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Vim auto-generate ctags

Right now I have the following in my .vimrc: au BufWritePost *.c,*.cpp,*.h !ctags -R There are a few …

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How to exclude multiple directories with Exuberant ctags?

I have looked and tried to use exuberant ctags with no luck with what I want to do. I am …

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