Available Layers » gtags

• Description
• Features
• Installation
• Configuration
• Language Support
  • Built-in languages
  • Exuberant ctags languages
  • Universal ctags languages
  • Pygments languages
• Key bindings

Description

gtags layer provides tags manager for SpaceVim, this layer can be used to generate and update tags database automatically.

Features

• Select any tag in a project retrieved by gtags
• Jump to a location based on context
• Find definitions
• Find references
• Present tags in current function only
• Create a tag database
• Jump to definitions in file
• Show stack of visited locations
• Manually/Automatically update tag database
• Jump to next location in context stack
• Jump to previous location in context stack
• Jump to a file in tag database

Installation

To use gtags layer, you first have to install GNU Global. You can install global from the software repository of your OS or build it from source.

Install on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install global

Install on OSX using Homebrew:

brew install global

Install on windows using scoop:

scoop install global

Build from source:

To take full advantage of global you should install 2 extra packages in addition to global: pygments and ctags (exuberant).

Download the latest tar.gz archive, then run these commands:

tar xvf global-6.5.3.tar.gz
cd global-6.5.3
./configure --with-exuberant-ctags=/usr/bin/ctags
make
sudo make install

Configuration

gtags layer provides the following options:

• gtagslabel: the backend of gtags command, you can use ctags or pygments. It is empty string by default. for example, to use pygments as backend:

  [[layers]]
    name = "gtags"
    gtagslabel = "pygments"
  

• auto_update: Update gtags/ctags database automatically when save a file. Default is true.
• tags_cache_dir: Setting the cache directory of tags. The default value is ~/.cache/SpaceVim/tags/
• ctags_bin: Setting the command or path of ctags. Default is ctags.

Language Support

Built-in languages

If you do not have ctags or pygments enabled gtags will only produce tags for the following languages:

• asm
• c/c++
• java
• php
• yacc

Exuberant ctags languages

If you have enabled exuberant ctags and use that as the backend the following additional languages will have tags created for them:

• c#
• erlang
• javascript
• common-lisp
• emacs-lisp
• lua
• ocaml
• python
• ruby
• scheme
• vimscript
• windows-scripts (.bat .cmd files)

Universal ctags languages

Instead, If you have installed the newer/beta universal ctags and use that as the backend the following additional languages will have tags created for them:

• clojure
• d
• go
• rust

Pygments languages

In order to look up symbol references for any language not in the built-in parser, you must use the pygments backend. When this backend is used, global actually uses both ctags and pygments to find the definitions and uses of functions and variables as well as “other symbols”.

If you enabled pygments (the best choice) and use that as the backend the following additional languages will have tags created for them:

• elixir
• fsharp
• haskell
• octave
• racket
• scala
• shell-scripts
• tex

Key bindings