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How to Modify default separator for CTAGS generated tag file

The default separator is tab character which is \t. However, if there are comments in a line of code being analyzed it messes up the format of the generated tag file. How to Modify default separator for CTAGS generated tag file?

Solution

  • You may like xformat feature of Universal-ctags. With the feature you can define your own format of output.

    [jet@localhost]~/var/ctags% cat input.c

#define ZERO 0
int main(void)
{
    return ZERO;
}
[jet@localhost]~/var/ctags% ./ctags -x --_xformat='(N, K, L) = ("%{name}", "%{kind}", %{line})' input.c

(N, K, L) = ("ZERO", "macro", 1)
(N, K, L) = ("main", "function", 2)

    http://docs.ctags.io/en/latest/news.html#customizing-xref-output may give you more hints.