Does ctags work with JavaScript?
As @Benoit answered, you can always setup a new languages for ctags; however in the case of JavaScript, you may want to try DoctorJS (formerly jsctags). From the author it is a limited JS environment that records all the functions and objects your script made and turns them into vim-compatible tags file.
How do ctags work?
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.
How do I enable Ctags in Vim?
ctags with Vim:
- cd to the folder of your choice where your file is located: Example: cd /home/algoscale/Desktop/pers/angularapp.
- Now run this command: ctags -R *
- To search for a specific tag and open the output in Vim to its definition, run the following command in your shell: vim -t “tag” Example: vim -t title.
What is the use of ctags?
The ctags command creates a tags file for use with the ex and vi editors from the specified C, Pascal, FORTRAN, yacc, lex, and LISP source files. The tags file consists of locators of programming language specific objects (such as functions and type definitions) within the source files.
What are ctags in Vim?
Where are Ctags stored?
tags file
All the information related to ctags is stored in a tags file. So, you will need to set the folder path in ~/.
What happened to the old parser for ctags?
The old parser produced structure names in the form __anonN where N was a number starting at 1 in each file and increasing at each new structure. This caused collisions in symbol names when ctags was run on multiple files.
What is the use of ctags in regex?
This flag allows a regex match to generate an anonymous tag entry. ctags gives a name starting with PREFIX and emits it. This flag is useful to record the position for a language object having no name. A lambda function in a functional programming language is a typical example of a language object having no name.
How to expand a macro in ctags?
Currently, ctags can expand a macro invocation only if its definitions are in the same input file. ctags cannot expand a macro defined in the header file included from the current input file. Enabling this macro expansion feature makes the parsing speed about two times slower. The parser is mostly compatible with the old one.
How do I paste a token in C with variable arguments?
Token pasting is performed by the ## operator, just like in the normal C preprocessor. $ ctags -D “DECLARE_FUNCTION (prefix)=int prefix ## Call ();” Macros with variable arguments use the gcc __VA_ARGS__ syntax. $ ctags -D “DECLARE_FUNCTION (name,…)=int name (__VA_ARGS__);”