[Geany-devel] R Tags

[Jonathan Daily]

Sorry to pester again, but what I have been having issues with is in your
step [2] AKA:

geany -g tagfile rfile

Where does the tagfile come from?

Thanks again,
    Jon

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 November 2010 16:59, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 9 November 2010 06:59, Jonathan Daily <biomathjdaily at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I have tried various [options] iterations of "geany -g [options]" as
> well as
> >>> trying the import tags command from inside geany on outputs from R's
> >>> "rtags()" function, and I just cannot seem to get tags for R.
> >>
> >> Step 1, if you open an R file do you get symbols in the sidebar?
> >>
> > Yes it does. Here on 0.20 (svn >= r5271).
>
> Step one tick :-)
> >
> >
> >> This tests that Geany's R tag parser is in fact working.  But I'm not
> >> sure how much information it gathers, it looks pretty simple.
> >>
> >> Step 2.  to get tags for files that you don't want to have open all
> >> the time (eg libraries) you use geany -g tagfile rfile
> >>
>
> Did this step work?
>
> >> The tagfile has to be named correctly as per the documentation and
> >> located in one of the places described in the documentation then Geany
> >> has to be restarted and it should load the tags.
> >>
> >> If you want to use a different source of tags such as rtags you will
> >> have to ensure that the format conforms to that described in the Geany
> >> documentation or convert it yourself.
> >>
> > The rtags() function 'parses R code files (using R's parser) and
> > produces tags in Emacs' etags format'. Are you aware of examples or
> > scripts to convert 'etags' tags to 'geany' tags?
> >
>
> No, thats why I said you need to convert it yourself, sorry.  My
> googles of emacs tags format in the past have been somewhat
> unproductive, but maybe you can read the source.  Geany also doesn't
> document tagmanager format (the more complex of its two formats)
> either.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> > Regards
> > Liviu
> >
> >
> >> Cheers
> >> Lex
> >>
> >>
> >>> This is likely because I don't understand how tags are parsed nor do I
> >>> understand how geany parses tags compared to other IDEs.
> >>> Has anyone gotten this to work? If so, could you spell it out for a
> tagging
> >>> newbie?
> >>> Thanks in advance,
> >>>     Jon
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