From 46d87b30f5a0c45b92d5ec1081f91f8ee5628f29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Odding Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 01:12:14 +0200 Subject: Explain how to setup custom ctags command line options --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cae7d2a..dcd69f9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -179,6 +179,10 @@ The easytags plug-in defines new highlighting groups for dynamically highlighted As you can see each of these names ends in `Tag` to avoid conflicts with the syntax modes shipped with Vim. And about the singular/plural confusion: I've tried to match the existing highlighting groups defined by popular syntax modes (except of course for the `Tag` suffix). +## Passing custom command line arguments to Exuberant Ctags + +You may want to run Exuberant Ctags with specific command line options, for example the [code_complete] [code_complete] plug-in requires the signature field to be present. To do this you can create a configuration file for Exuberant Ctags, e.g. `~/.ctags` on UNIX or `%USERPROFILE%\ctags.cnf` on Windows. The file should contain one command line option per line. See the [Exuberant Ctags manual] [ctags_cfg] for details. + ## Troubleshooting ### `:HighlightTags` only works for the tags file created by `:UpdateTags` @@ -246,7 +250,9 @@ This software is licensed under the [MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M [canon]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization +[code_complete]: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1764 [ctags]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags +[ctags_cfg]: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ctags.html#FILES [ctags_fts]: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/languages.html [ctrl_c]: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pattern.html#CTRL-C [ctrl_mapping]: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/tagsrch.html#CTRL-] -- cgit v1.2.3