gen_tags.vim

Async plugin for Vim/NeoVim to ease the use of ctags/gtags.
It is used for generate and maintain tags for you with multiple platform support, tested on Windows/Linux/macOS.

gen_tags.vim will detect git root and use it as the project root path.

Generate/Update ctags and gtags will run in background.

Completion with gtags

gen_tags.vim also provide a gtags completion source for nvim-completion-manager
It's optional, if you don't use ncm, just ignore it 😄

Difference between ctags and gtags

GNU global(aka gtags) is more powerful than ctags, which support definition, reference, calling, called, include, string and etc, but ctags only support definition.

As we can use GNU global why did I still support ctags in this plugin?
That's because GNU global only support 6 languages (C, C++, Yacc, Java, PHP4 and assembly) natively.
ctags can support more languages(41 showed on the website).

Actually global can support more languages with Pygments plugin parser, for more details please refer PLUGIN_HOWTO.pygments in global document.

Installation

• Neobundle

  Add NeoBundle 'jsfaint/gen_tags.vim' to your vimrc
  Then launch vim/nvim and run :NeobundleCheck

• vim-plug

  Add Plug 'jsfaint/gen_tags.vim' to your vimrc
  Then launch vim/'nvim' and run :PlugInstall

• Traditional method

  Unzip the zip file under your .vim(*unix) or vimfiles(windows) directory.

Ctags support

Commands For Ctags

• :GenCtags

  Generate ctags database

• :EditExt

  Edit an extend configuration file for this project, use for add third-party library ctags database
  The extend database will be generate automatically.

  e.g.: For libpcap under e:\src\libpcap-1.3.0 add the following content to ext.conf

  e:/src/libpcap-1.3.0

• :ClearCtags

  :ClearCtags      Remove tags files.
  :ClearCtags!     Remove tags files, ext.conf and the folder.

Gtags support

GTAGS support the third-party library by set an environment variable GTAGSLIBPATH
But you can take a more straightforward way to do the same thing, by create a symbol link of the library

• Linux/macOS

  ln -s /usr/include/ .

• Windows

  mklink /J include C:\TDM-GCC-32\include

Commands For Gtags

• :GenGTAGS

  Generate GTAGS

• :ClearGTAGS

  Clear GTAGS files

Key Mapping

ctrl+] is the default mapping support by Vim for definition

The following mapping is set for GTAGS find function which use cscope interface (if_cscope).

Ctrl+\ c    Find functions calling this function
Ctrl+\ d    Find functions called by this function
Ctrl+\ e    Find this egrep pattern
Ctrl+\ f    Find this file
Ctrl+\ g    Find this definition
Ctrl+\ i    Find files #including this file
Ctrl+\ s    Find this C symbol
Ctrl+\ t    Find this text string

Options

• g:loaded_gentags#ctags

Set to 1 if you want to disable ctags support

• g:loaded_gentags#gtags

Set to 1 if you want to disable gtags support

• g:gen_tags#ctags_bin

Set location of ctags. The default is 'ctags'

• g:gen_tags#ctags_opts

Set ctags options. The -R is set by default, so there is no need to add -R in g:ctags_opts.
The default g:ctags_opts is '', you need to set it in your vimrc 😄

• g:gen_tags#gtags_split

Set gtags find display behavior. The default g:gtags_split is ''.
'' means don't split the display.
'h' means horizontal splitting.
'v' means vertical splitting.

• g:gen_tags#ctags_auto_gen

Auto generate ctags when this variable is 1 and current file belongs to a git repo.
The default g:ctags_auto_gen is 0

• g:gen_tags#gtags_auto_gen

Auto generate gtags when this variable is 1 and current file belongs to a git repo.
The default g:gtags_auto_gen is 0

• g:gen_tags#verbose

Verbose mode to echo some message
The default g:gen_tags#verbose is 0

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Thanks for reading :)
If you like this plugin, please star it on github!

And one more thing, bug reports and pull-requests are greatly appreciated :)