Vim and Ctags tips and tricks

[fafner]

Give GNU Global a try http://www.gnu.org/software/global/

https://github.com/OpenGrok/OpenGrok/wiki/Comparison-with-Si...

[tux1968]

Thanks for posting this. Am surprised to have not heard of this project before. It's a bit disappointing that it's not included in either of the Distro's that I use regularly. And even worse that the source for the project is maintained in CVS. It seems like perhaps the project is a tad neglected.

[looklookatme]

Thanks for highlighting this; I took it out for a spin and wow it's fast. I normally find myself working on projects with tens of thousands of files and I've never really been happy with the few seconds it can take ctags to locate a definition or to tab-complete something. Though it seems like gtags is missing a couple of output-related options, the speed of lookup is a significant improvement.

[IvarTJ]

In addition to Ctrl+T to go back from a definition, Ctrl+O also seems to work, which I find more ergonomic on Qwerty.

[mangamadaiyan]

I find it useful to display the output of tag commands in a location list rather than the default vim pager. (Use "ltag" instead of "tag" from the vim command line).

[adnam]

Before clicking this link, I wager that it's already been closed as "not constructive" by zealot S.O. mods.

Edit: yep. Thanks Kev, good work!

[DanBC]

To be fair SE have made it clear that they don't want that type of question there, so at least they're consistent.

I'm surprised that HN hasn't spotted the market opportunity for a site like SE but allowing only non-specific discussion style questions.