Vala support for ctags

Vala support for ctags

08:11

Tuesday, July 1. 2008

It's been a long time since I've posted anything, and the last thing I've posted was about vala support for ctags. The good news is : it's done.

I'm pleased to announce the first release of vala support for (exuberant) ctags. It supports every vala tag kind I'm aware of, and most exuberant ctags extensions. And since it's based on libvala, it also supports Genie. Vala was tested with the entire libvala code, and genie was only tested with the two examples on Jamie's blog (but this should be sufficient as it uses libvala)

What's missing now is the ability to produce pattern based tag entries (only line number is supported), and tag scope (such as namespace and class name for a field).

You can get a tarball (based on latest svn of exuberant ctags), or patches : against exuberant ctags and against anjuta's local copy, both svn versions.

Update: The exuberant ctags based version needs to be configured with --enable-vala
Update 2 : I've just updated the tarball because it had a problem (I forgot to run aclocal)

And since a screenshot is better than talk, here is one:
anjuta tag manager
Posted by Abderrahim Kitouni in GNOME | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Woah!!
#1 Philip Van Hoof (Homepage) on 2008-07-01 10:15 (Reply)
Cool stuff :-) keep up !
#2 Ali Sabil (Homepage) on 2008-07-01 12:49 (Reply)
Ctags does not work for me.
after autoconf and ./configure --enable-vala:
./configure: line 1842: syntax error near unexpected token `VALA,'
./configure: line 1842: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(VALA, vala-1.0, have_vala="yes", have_vala="no")'
#3 lariq on 2008-07-05 00:21 (Reply)
I've just uploaded a new tarball that fixes the problem. Alternatively, you can run autoreconf if you have autoconf and automake installed.
#3.1 Abderrahim Kitouni on 2008-07-09 03:49 (Reply)

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