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• Intro
• Requirements
• Installation
  • Install ex-utility
  • Install ctags
  • Install ex-tags
• Usage

For more details, check exVim's Docs: Tags and Symbols

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Intro

ex-tags is a Vim plugin which improves the usage of Vim's :ts function. It will list tags by file path and allow you move cursor to select it.

ex-tags is also a part of exVim project

Requirements

• Vim 6.0 or higher.
• exvim/ex-utility
• ctags

Installation

Install ex-utility

ex-tags is written based on exvim/ex-utility. This is the basic library of ex-vim-plugins. Follow the readme file in ex-utility to install it first.

Install ctags

ex-tags used ctags to generate tags. You can install ctags for different platform:

Mac

## use Homebrew
brew install ctags

Linux

## use pat-get
apt-get install ctags

## use yum
yum install ctags

## or compile ctags from source

Windows

download it from ctags page

Install ex-tags

ex-tags follows the standard runtime path structure, and as such it can be installed with a variety of plugin managers:

To install using Vundle:

# add this line to your .vimrc file
Bundle 'exvim/ex-tags'

To install using Pathogen:

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/exvim/ex-tags

To install using NeoBundle:

# add this line to your .vimrc file
NeoBundle 'exvim/ex-tags'

Download zip file:

cd ~/.vim
unzip ex-tags-master.zip
copy all of the files into your ~/.vim directory

Usage

Enter your project, use ctags command create your tags:

ctags -R .

For more details about using ctags, read ctags manual.

You will see a tags file generated under your directory.

Start your Vim and try to search a tag by :TS your-tag. A search window will open and the search results of your-tag will be listed in it.

You can jump to the search result by hit the Enter on the listed lines.

More details, check :help extags.

cTags for javascript

Put it in ~/.ctags

--langdef=js
--langmap=js:.js
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*\{/\5/,object/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*function[ \t]*\(/\5/,function/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*\[/\5/,array/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*[^"]'[^']*/\5/,string/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*(true|false)/\5/,boolean/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*[0-9]+/\5/,number/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*.+([,;=]|$)/\5/,variable/
--regex-js=/(,|(;|^)[ \t]*(var|let|([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$.]+\.)*))[ \t]*([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*[ \t]*([,;]|$)/\5/,variable/
--regex-js=/function[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*\([^)]*\)/\1/,function/

--regex-js=/(,|^)[ \t]*([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*:[ \t]*\{/\2/,object/
--regex-js=/(,|^)[ \t]*([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*:[ \t]*function[ \t]*\(/\2/,function/
--regex-js=/(,|^)[ \t]*([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*:[ \t]*\[/\2/,array/
--regex-js=/(,|^)[ \t]*([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*:[ \t]*[^"]'[^']*/\2/,string/
--regex-js=/(,|^)[ \t]*([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*:[ \t]*(true|false)/\2/,boolean/
--regex-js=/(,|^)[ \t]*([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*:[ \t]*[0-9]+/\2/,number/
--regex-js=/(,|^)[ \t]*([A-Za-z_$][A-Za-z0-9_$]+)[ \t]*:[ \t]*[^=]+([,;]|$)/\2/,variable/