ptags

Perl tags generator for VIM

Usage

ptags.pl path tags_file [--exclude pattern] [--lang] (where lang is --C, --Java, --Python, --JS, --Perl, --Ruby, --Kotlin, --Go, --CS, --Swift, --PHP)

Tag file format:

tagname<tab>file<tab>/pattern/

Add generated tag file to VIM using:

:set tags=tags_file # set the tags file

:set tags+=tags_file # append to list of existing tags

Current languages supported:

c/c++,java,python,javascript,perl,ruby,kotlin,go,c#,swift,php

Support for other languages:

This requires adding a check for the filetype, removing comments, stripping out string literals. Most importantly, it should filter out the language's keywords.

The identifier split should be the same (I believe) and the unique symbol check and sort should be the same. However, its better to output to different tag files symbols of different languages.

Tags use in VIM:

Ctrl ]

(jump to tag) if more than one match, type in number for selecting from multiple matches

Ctrl T

return back to previous tag

:pop previous

:tag

go back to tag match Can also give number like :5tag

Author

Roger Doss

opensource [at] rdoss [dot] com