Exuberant Ctags on Mac

Presnus picture Presnus · Jul 24, 2011 · Viewed 28.8k times · Source

I'm currently using vim for my PHP development. A few weeks ago I bought myself a mac, and wanted to re-generate my tags for a new Zend Framework version.

I used the following script in the past (linux machine) to generate the tags:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/www/ZF/     
ctags-exuberant -f ~/.vim/tags/zend \
-h ".php" -R \
--exclude="\.svn" \
--totals=yes \
--tag-relative=yes \
--PHP-kinds=+cf \
--regex-PHP='/abstract class ([^ ]*)/\1/c/' \
--regex-PHP='/interface ([^ ]*)/\1/c/' \
--regex-PHP='/(public |static |abstract |protected |private )+function ([^ (]*)/\2/f/'

You can see I used the "ctags-exuberant" command. The problem is that this isn't found on my system (mac). I only have the ctags command. I tried installing the newest version of the ctags library (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/) but didn't gave me that command.

The ctags command does not have the same parameters as the ctags-exuberant. So 2 questions:

  • What's the difference between the 2 commands?
  • How can I install ctags-exuberant or use the normal ctags command for PHP?

Thanks! Ward

Answer

daniel picture daniel · Jul 24, 2011

Install Homebrew, then do:

brew install ctags