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Navigating the Ingres source with … ctags

Started by grant · 10 months ago

I recently discovered ctags, a program that generates a tag/index file for C, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby. For those new to the Ingres source ctags is an invaluable tool for navigating the Ingres source tree. Editors like vi and Emacs can use the generated tag file to allow the coder to go ... Continue reading »

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  • The other thing you can do with ctags which is pretty cool, is

    vi -t IIapi_initialize

    and it will take you to the first file with that symbol in and take you to that line in the file. It'll also load a 'stack' of other file references which you can then navigate through. There are different ways to do so :tn and :tp will take you to the next and previous occurrences respectively, and :ts will allow you to select from a list.

    :help tags opens a help file with full description of how to use tags with vim.

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