However, the output could not be directly used by ctags, thus this script uses sed commands to filter the output. This script will first use gcc -M to output the list of header files that are included in our C or C++ source files. Read on if you want to know what’s happening here. ctags_with_dep.sh file1.c file2.c file3.cpp. If you only want to use it, download the script and use the following command to generate the tags file. This script is also available on github gist. to generate a tags file for these files.Ĭtags -L -c++-kinds=+p -fields=+iaS -extra=+q To do this, I wrote a shell script ctags_with_dep.sh: #!/bin/bash We could first search for the header files that are included in our projects, and then we use ctags to generate a tags file for these files and our source files, in this way, a much smaller tags file that containing all the symbols that maybe useful for the project is generated.
Why must we generate a tags file containing all the symbols in the system header? If we only generate the tags file only for the header files that are related to our projects, would it be faster? That’s the point of this idea. To solve this problem, I came up with another idea. This command usually takes a very long time to finish, and finally it gives a quite large tags file, which causes the editor or IDE a long time to search this tags file for symbols. For example, the following command will generate a tags file for all your system header files on UNIX/Linux: ctags -R -c++-kinds=+p -fields=+iaS -extra=+q /usr/include
There was a solution: generate a tags file for any external header files first, and let the editor or IDE read both the generated tags file and the tags file for the project source tree. thus editors or IDEs that use tags files, such as Vim, are not able to locate symbols in external header files. No matter which one you use, the generated tags file only contains the symbols in the files in your project source tree, but not any external file, such as standard header files (e.g. įor some users that need more info of the symbols, they may use this command instead: ctags -R -c++-kinds=+p -fields=+iaS -extra=+q. When using ctags to generate the tags file for C/C++ projects, usually we use the following command: ctags -R. If you are using other versions of ctags, this post may not be useful. This post is for those people who use Exuberant Ctags.
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