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Exuberant Ctags
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Author: Darren Hiebert <dhiebert at users.sourceforge.net>
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http://ctags.sourceforge.net
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Instant Messaging:
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Yahoo! ID : dbhiebert
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AIM ScreenName: darrenhiebert
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Exuberant Ctags is a multilanguage reimplementation of the much-underused
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ctags(1) program and is intended to be the mother of all ctags programs. It
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generates indexes of source code definitions which are used by a number of
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editors and tools. The motivation which drove the development of Exuberant
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Ctags was the need for a ctags program which supported generation of tags
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for all possible C language constructs (which no other ctags offers), and
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because most were easily fooled by a number of preprocessor contructs.
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Exuberant Ctags offers the following features:
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1. It supports the following languages: Assembler, AWK, ASP, BETA,
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Bourne/Korn/Z Shell, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Eiffel, Erlang, Fortran, Java, Lisp,
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Lua, Makefile, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, REXX, Ruby, Scheme,
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S-Lang, SML (Standard ML), Tcl, Vera, Verilog, Vim, and YACC.
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2. It is capable of generating tags for virtually all C language constructs.
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3. It is very robust in parsing code. In particular, the C/C++ parser is
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far less easily fooled by code containing #if preprocessor conditional
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constructs, using a conditional path selection algorithm to resolve
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complicated situations, and a fall-back algorithm when this one fails.
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4. Supports output of Emacs-style TAGS files (i.e. "etags").
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5. User-defined languages, using Posix regular expressions.
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6. Supports UNIX, MSDOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, OS/2, QNX, Amiga, QDOS,
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RISC OS, VMS, Macintosh, and Cray. Some pre-compiled binaries are
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available on the web site.
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Visit the Exuberant Ctags web site:
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http://ctags.sourceforge.net
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Which brings us to the most obvious question:
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Q: Why is it called "Exuberant" ctags?
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A: Because one of the meanings of the word is:
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exuberant : produced in extreme abundance : PLENTIFUL syn see PROFUSE
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Compare the tag file produced by Exuberant Ctags with that produced by any
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other ctags and you will see how appropriate the name is.
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This source code is distributed according to the terms of the GNU General
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Public License. It is provided on an as-is basis and no responsibility is
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accepted for its failure to perform as expected. It is worth at least as
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much as you paid for it!
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Exuberant Ctags was originally derived from and inspired by the ctags
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program by Steve Kirkendall (kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu) that comes with the Elvis
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vi clone (though almost none of the original code remains). This, too, is
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freely available.
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Please report any problems you find. The two problems I expect to be most
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likely are either a tag which you expected but is missing, or a tag created
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in error (shouldn't really be a tag). Please include a sample of code (the
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definition) for the object which misbehaves.
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--
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vim:tw=76:sw=4:et:
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