Ctags is a tool that will sift through your code, indexing methods, classes, variables, and other identifiers, storing the index in a tags file. The tags file contains a single tag per line. Depending on command line arguments and the language ctags is run against, a lot of information can be obtained from this index.
- $ sudo apt install ctags. Select the programming source code project folder to determine whether ctags is functioning properly. …
- $ cd pythoncode. $ ls. …
- $ sudo vim ~/.vimrc. …
- :syntax on. …
- $ ctags -R * …
- $ vim tags. …
- $ vim leapyear. …
- :tag<tag-name>
Ctags is a tool that makes it easy to navigate large source code projects. It provides some of the features that you may be used to using in Eclipse or other IDEs, such as the ability to jump from the current source file to definitions of functions and structures in other files.
