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Laz
Laz

Reputation: 6204

Exuberant Ctags during active development

Quick ctags question. Google did not reveal the answer. Ctags is awesome to browse a complete source file. But what about a file that is currently being worked on. Is there a way to dynamically update the ctags file each time a new function/variable is added?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 374

Answers (2)

jira
jira

Reputation: 3944

Also see the TagList plugin - the top-rated and most-downloaded plugin ;)

Upvotes: 0

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196596

You can write an autocmd that is triggered after x seconds of inactivity or after each <Esc>:

autocmd CursorHold *.js :!ctags -R .

But it is a bit messy.

See :help autocmd for more information and a list of possible events.

Also see the EasyTags plugin (that I use), or AutoTag, or Indexer which are a lot cleaner and smarter.

Upvotes: 4

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