[ECOS] How best to create tags file for ecos source?

[ECOS] How best to create tags file for ecos source?

[Jeff Lasslett]

Greetings,

	I'm a vim user and I would really like to know the best
way to create ctags file(s) for the ecos source.  The problem is
that I don't want to create tags for the whole source tree because
it contains code for other platforms and it contains packages
that I may not build into my project.
	I have tried manually running ctags for each directory 
that I want tags for but I think the tags file gets too big and 
vim takes forever to jump to a tagged item.

	If anyone has any advice for regarding this I would
appreciate it.

cheers,
	Jeff

Re: [ECOS] How best to create tags file for ecos source?

[Bart Veer]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Lasslett <jeff@datataker.com.au> writes:

    Jeff> 	I'm a vim user and I would really like to know the
    Jeff> best way to create ctags file(s) for the ecos source. The
    Jeff> problem is that I don't want to create tags for the whole
    Jeff> source tree because it contains code for other platforms and
    Jeff> it contains packages that I may not build into my project.

    Jeff> 	I have tried manually running ctags for each directory
    Jeff> that I want tags for but I think the tags file gets too big
    Jeff> and vim takes forever to jump to a tagged item.

    Jeff> 	If anyone has any advice for regarding this I would
    Jeff> appreciate it.

I don't think there is an easy way to automate this at present. The
current makefile generation code does not provide any support for tags
generation. The knowledge of which files get built for a specific
configuration (including automatically generated files) is only
available to C++ programs linked with libcdl, and there is no
documentation for the libcdl API at present (other than the comments
in the header files).

In the medium to long term, I hope to make this sort of information
available to Tcl scripts. However I do not know when this is going to
happen. 

Bart