Hi, On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Nathan Neff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I decided to conquer my fear/frustration of ctags, and found that Vim > doesn't like > the format that's generated by ctags for Java files (at least on Ubuntu 10.4.) > > I find it odd, since the man page in ctags states that it supports Java files. > > I used a simple Java class in Foo.java: > > public class Foo { > > public static void funct1 () { > System.out.println ("Inside funct1"); > } > > public static void main (String[] args) { > funct1(); > } > } > > Then, I went to the directory of Foo.java, and ran >>ctags --declarations --language=java *.java > > I opened Foo.java in Vim, and tried Ctrl-] on the funct1(); line in > main(), but Vim stated that > "tag funct1 wasn't found". > > I was able to solve the problem by using exuberant ctags, but I find it > odd that ctags man page states that it works for the Java language. > > Does anyone use ctags on Java/other programming languages, or is it generally > understood to use exuberant-ctags when using other languages? >
The VIM tags feature should work with a tags file generated by any tool as long as the tags file format is as described under the "tags-file-format" help topic. :help tags-file-format - Yegappan -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
