[Geany-devel] Exuberant Ctags Support

Jiří Techet techet at xxxxx
Mon May 30 00:33:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 22:16, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 05/25/11 09:03, Jiří Techet wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 17:29, Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>  wrote:
>
>>> parsing the open source files.  Dumping the list of tags parsed to a
>>> plain-text (Ctags format) file seems fairly trivial.  This would remove
>>> the
>>> need for the user to *have* to have Ctags on her system.
>
>>
>> OK, one more idea - how about generating the Geany's tag file in the
>> ctags format? (I don't like the current tags binary format much.)
>>
>
> I think that would be best.  Tag manager isn't really a binary format, but
> there's no reason to use a format that you can't punch in on a normal
> keyboard.

The tags are saved in tm_tag_write() using code like

fprintf(fp, "%c%d", TA_TYPE, tag->type);

so the file contains binary representation of integers and other types
so it is a binary format.

> Seeing that the Ctags format is somewhat of a "standard",
> supports all of the needed information, and is used by many other editors,
> it seems only logical to use this format.

Completely agree.

>
> Another bonus is that Ctags format has the filename in it, which could
> potentially be useful for the "Go to Tag Definition" feature, maybe?

Good point.

Jiri



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