CTags

CTags This Sublime Text package provides support for working with tags generated by Exuberant CTags or Universal CTags. ctags command is searched for on the system PATH. It works by doing a binary search of a memory-mapped tags file, so it will work efficiently with very large (50MB+) tags files if needed. Installation Package Control The easiest way to install is using Package Control. It's listed as CTags. Open Command Palette using menu item Tools → Command Palette... Choose Package Control: Install Package Find CTags and hit Enter Manual Download Download the .zip Unzip and rename folder to CTags Copy folder into Packages directory, which can be found using the menu item Preferences → Browse Packages... Using Git Go to your Sublime Text Packages directory and clone the repository using the command below:: git clone https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags Additional Setup Steps Linux To install ctags use your package manager. For Debian-based systems (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.):: sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags or sudo apt-get install universal-ctags For Red Hat-based systems (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS):: sudo yum install ctags MacOS The default ctags executable in OSX does not support recursive directory search (i.e. ctags -R). To get a proper copy of ctags, use one of the following options: Using Homebrew brew install ctags Using MacPorts port install ctags Ensure that the PATH is updated so the correct version is run: If which ctags doesn't point at ctags in /usr/local/bin, make sure you add /usr/local/bin to your PATH ahead of the folder which ctags reported. Alternatively, add the path to the new ctags executable to the settings, under command. If you have Xcode / Apple Developer Tools installed this path will likely be /usr/local/bin/ctags. Windows Download Exuberant CTags binary or Universal CTags binary Extract ctags.exe from the downloaded zip to C:\Program Files\Sublime Text or any folder within your PATH so that Sublime Text can run it. Alternatively, extract to any folder and add the path to this folder to the command setting. Usage This uses tag files created by the ctags -R -f .tags command by default (although this can be overridden in settings). The plugin will try to find a .tags file in the same directory as the current view, walking up directories until it finds one. If it can't find one it will offer to build one (in the directory of the current view) If a symbol can't be found in a tags file, it will search in additional locations that are specified in the CTags.sublime-settings file (see below). If you are a Rubyist, you can build a Ruby Gem's tags with the following script: require 'bundler' paths = Bundler.load.specs.map(&:full_gem_path) system("ctags -R -f .gemtags #{paths.join(' ')}") Settings To open CTags.sublime-settings Open Command Palette using menu item Tools → Command Palette... Choose Preferences: CTags Settings and hit Enter filters will allow you to set scope specific filters against a field of the tag. In the excerpt above, imports tags like from a import b are filtered: '(?P<symbol>[^\t]+)\t' '(?P<filename>[^\t]+)\t' '(?P<ex_command>.*?);"\t' '(?P<type>[^\t\r\n]+)' '(?:\t(?P<fields>.*))?' extra_tag_paths is a list of extra places to look for keyed by (selector, platform). Note the platform is tested against sublime.platform() so any values that function returns are valid. extra_tag_files is a list of extra files relative to the original file command is the path to the version of ctags to use, for example:: "command" : "/usr/local/bin/ctags" or: "command" : "C:\\Users\\<username>\\Downloads\\CTags\\ctag.exe" The rest of the options are fairly self explanatory. Hide .tags files from side bar By default, Sublime will include ctags files in your project, which causes them to show up in the file tree and search results. To disable this behaviour you should add a file_exclude_patterns entry to your Preferences.sublime-settings or your project file. For example: "file_exclude_patterns": [".tags", ".tags_sorted_by_file", ".gemtags"] Support If there are any problems or you have a suggestion, open an issue, and we will receive a notification. Commands Listing Command Key Binding Alt Binding Mouse Binding rebuild_ctags ctrl+t, ctrl+r navigate_to_definition ctrl+t, ctrl+t ctrl+> ctrl+shift+left_click jump_back ctrl+t, ctrl+b ctrl+< ctrl+shift+right_click show_symbols alt+s show_symbols (all files) alt+shift+s show_symbols (suffix) ctrl+alt+shift+s