I'm new to vim and wanted to get ctags integration working so I can more easily navigate a large java project.
I've pulled down the zip from source forge and extracted it but from here I'm not sure how to get it working with vim
Any help for a novice vim user would be great!
As nobody has given one critical function in these answers, I'll provide one more slightly superior answer.
The easiest way to use ctags with vim is by calling:
ctags -R *
from the root of your source repository. This will generate a tags
file in that same directory.
In your ~/.vimrc
file, add this short block:
" ctags optimization
set autochdir
set tags=tags;
"
denotes a comment. set autochdir
tells vim that if it doesn't find a tags
file in the $PWD
it will look in the directory parent for the tags
file, recursively. set tags=tags;
tells vim that the name of your tags
file will always be the same as the default tags
file generated by ctags.
So long as you run ctags -R *
in your root source directory the first time and occasionally to update it (if you pull new changes from others) then you'll always have a fast and intuitive ctags symbol lookup in vim.