Difference between ctags and exuberant ctags
From raju
Q. What is the difference between ctags and exuberant ctags?
A.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags#Ctags_and_Exuberant_Ctags shows the difference between file formats of the original ctags and the exuberant ctags.
- On Debian, there is only exuberant ctags available
rajulocal@hogwarts ~ % apt-cache search --names-only ctags exuberant-ctags - build tag file indexes of source code definitions libparse-exuberantctags-perl - exuberant ctags parser for Perl rajulocal@hogwarts ~ % rmadison exuberant-ctags debian: exuberant-ctags | 1:5.8-3squeeze1 | squeeze | source, amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc exuberant-ctags | 1:5.8-3squeeze2 | squeeze-lts | source, amd64, i386 exuberant-ctags | 1:5.9~svn20110310-4+deb7u1 | wheezy-security | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc exuberant-ctags | 1:5.9~svn20110310-4+deb7u1 | wheezy | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc exuberant-ctags | 1:5.9~svn20110310-8 | jessie | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x exuberant-ctags | 1:5.9~svn20110310-8 | sid | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x, sparc new:
- The taglist.vim plugin (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=273, http://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/faq.html) relies on the features supported by exuberant ctags and will not work with GNU ctags or the Unix ctags utility. You can use the following command to determine whether the ctags installed in your system is exuberant ctags:
$ ctags --version