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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Note that this command will be executed automatically every once in a while, ass ### The `g:easytags_cmd` option -The plug-in will try to determine the location where Exuberant Ctags is installed on its own but this might not always work because any given executable named `ctags` in your `$PATH` might not in fact be Exuberant Ctags but some older, more primitive `ctags` implementation which doesn't support the same command-line options and thus breaks the `easytags.vim` plug-in. If this is the case you can set the global variable `g:easytags_cmd` to the location where you've installed Exuberant Ctags, e.g.: +The plug-in will try to determine the location where Exuberant Ctags is installed on its own but this might not always work because any given executable named `ctags` in your `$PATH` might not in fact be Exuberant Ctags but some older, more primitive `ctags` implementation which doesn't support the same command line options and thus breaks the `easytags.vim` plug-in. If this is the case you can set the global variable `g:easytags_cmd` to the location where you've installed Exuberant Ctags, e.g.: :let g:easytags_cmd = '/usr/local/bin/ctags' @@ -78,6 +78,20 @@ You have to explicitly enable this option because it should only be used while n Note that when you enable this option the `easytags.vim` plug-in might ignore other options like `g:easytags_resolve_links`. This is an implementation detail which I intend to fix. +### The `g:easytags_include_members` option + +Exuberant Ctags knows how to generate tags for struct/class members in C++ and Java source code but doesn't do so by default because it can more than double the size of your tags files, thus taking much longer to read/write the tags file. When you enable the `g:easytags_include_members` option from your [vimrc script][vimrc] (before the `easytags.vim` plug-in is loaded): + + :let g:easytags_include_members = 1 + +Exuberant Ctags will be instructed to include struct/class members using the `--extra=+q` command line argument and the `easytags.vim` plug-in will highlight them using the `cMember` highlighting group. Because most color schemes don't distinguish the [Identifier and Type](http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#group-name) highlighting groups all members will now probably look like type definitions. You can change that by executing any of the following Vim commands (from your vimrc script, a file type plug-in, etc.): + + " If you like one of the existing styles you can link them: + highlight link cMember Special + + " You can also define your own style if you want: + highlight cMember gui=italic + ### The `g:easytags_resolve_links` option UNIX has [symbolic links](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link) and [hard links](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link), both of which conflict with the concept of having one unique location for every identifier. With regards to hard links there's not much anyone can do, but because I use symbolic links quite a lot I've added this option. It's disabled by default since it has a small performance impact and might not do what unknowing users expect it to: When you enable this option the plug-in will resolve symbolic links in pathnames, which means your tags file will only contain entries with [canonical pathnames](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization). To enable this option (which I strongly suggest doing when you run UNIX and use symbolic links) execute the following Vim command: |