Re: [ITA] ctags 6.1.0 - programming language source indexing and cross-reference tool

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 15/06/2024 16:10, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
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> On 2024-06-14 23:20, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> I would like to adopt ctags and update it to successor universal-ctags.

Thanks. I added this to your packages.

>> Description:
>> Generates an index (tag) file of language objects found in
>> source files.
>> The index makes it easy for text editors or other utilities to locate
>> the indexed items.
>> Ctags can also generate a cross reference file which lists information
>> about the various objects found in a set of language files in human
>> readable form.
>> Exuberant Ctags improves on ctags because it can find all types of

This should say "universal-ctags", right?

>> language tags, including macro definitions, enumerated values (values
>> inside enum{...}), function and method definitions, enum/struct/union
>> tags, external function prototypes, typedef names and variable
>> declarations.
>> Exuberant Ctags is far less likely to be fooled by code containing
>> preprocessor conditional constructs than ctags.
>> Exuberant ctags supports output of Emacs style TAGS files and can be
>> used to print out a list of selected objects found in source files.
>> Install ctags if you are going to use your system for C programming.