ctags setup on mac

ctags.setup

# you have ctags but it does not work...
$ ctags -R --exclude=.git --exclude=log *
ctags: illegal option -- R
usage: ctags [-BFadtuwvx] [-f tagsfile] file ...

#you need to get new ctags, i recommend homebrew but anything will work
$ brew install ctags

#alias ctags if you used homebrew
$ alias ctags="`brew --prefix`/bin/ctags"

#try again!
ctags -R --exclude=.git --exclude=log *

#puts tags file into you .gitignore (probably global) and you're all set!

#PS. i was inspired to install ctags by https://workshops.thoughtbot.com/vim video by @r00k, thanks man!

Despite this solution is working one thing to note, - it will install older version of ctags that might lack support for some programming languages ( in my case it was go ). You can check version by running ctags --version once you finished following steps above and likely you will see something like:

Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
 Compiled: Oct  6 2019, 20:31:35
 Addresses: <[email protected]>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
 Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex

Solution is to setup currently maintained ctags implementation ( https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags ), install steps are provided according the platform in their website, specifically for MAC can be found here: https://docs.ctags.io/en/latest/osx.html#building-with-homebrew

thanks

Thank you! 🙏

13 years ❤️

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