Ctags

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Ctags is a program that generates an index (or tag) file of objects found in source and header files of various programming languages. Each of these tags signifies an object of the language for which an index entry is available. These tags allow items to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility. Alternatively, there is also an output mode that generates a cross reference file, listing information about various objects found in a set of language files in human-readable form.

The original Ctags was introduced in BSD Unix and was written by Ken Arnold, with Fortran support by Jim Kleckner and Pascal support by Bill Joy.

Contents

Tag index files are supported by many code editors, including:

There are a few variations of the ctags program:

Etags is the ctags utility that comes with Emacs.

Exuberant Ctags, written and maintained by Darren Hiebert, was distributed with Vim for most of its life, but when Vim 6 was released Exuberant Ctags became a separate project. It includes support for Emacs compatibility.

Exuberant Ctags includes support for over 30 programming languages with the ability to add support for even more using regular expressions.

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