Re: [gedit-list] Javascript code outliner?

[kaleb moreland <kaleb moreland gmail com>]

And that did the trick.  Thanks Matej!

As an aside, my JS codebase makes heavy use of closures and prototypal inheritance.  But apparently ctags parsing won't handle nested definitions.  I guess my search for a Gedit-based class browser for JS continues...

best,
Kaleb

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl redhat com> wrote:

Dne 18.11.2010 16:08, kaleb moreland napsal(a):

> Yeah, running Gedit <_javascript_-file> from the command line emits:
> ctags: invalid option -- 'n'
>
> Could it be I'm on a wrong ctags version?  Not sure how to check for
> that, though.

I think gedit expects exuberant tags (there are more implementations of
the ancient tags command). Try to run the following command:

jakoubek:~ $ ctags --version
Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
 Compiled: Jan  4 2010, 12:38:14
 Addresses: <dhiebert users sourceforge net>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
 Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex
jakoubek:~ $

or you can try (dpkg -S /usr/bin/ctags would be Debian equivalent I
believe):

jakoubek:~ $ rpm -qif /usr/bin/ctags
Name        : ctags                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 5.8                               Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 2.fc13                        Build Date:
Po 4. leden 2010, 13:38:16 CET
Install Date: Út 17. srpen 2010, 20:42:29 CEST      Build Host:
x86-01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group       : Development/Tools             Source RPM:
ctags-5.8-2.fc13.src.rpm
Size        : 347892                           License: GPLv2+ or Public
Domain
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, So 24. červenec 2010, 23:49:23 CEST, Key ID
421caddb97a1071f
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : A C programming language indexing and/or cross-reference tool
Description :
Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of C language objects found in
C source and header files.  The index makes it easy for text editors or
other utilities to locate the indexed items.  Ctags can also generate a
cross reference file which lists information about the various objects
found in a set of C language files in human readable form.  Exuberant
Ctags improves on ctags because it can find all types of C language tags,
including macro definitions, enumerated values (values inside enum{...}),
function and method definitions, enum/struct/union tags, external
function prototypes, typedef names and variable declarations.  Exuberant
Ctags is far less likely to be fooled by code containing #if preprocessor
conditional constructs than ctags.  Exuberant ctags supports output of
Emacs style TAGS files and can be used to print out a list of selected
objects found in source files.

Install ctags if you are going to use your system for C programming.
jakoubek:~ $


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