Comment by gregjor
1 year ago
I use vim with ctags. vim has good autocomplete but I don't use it much -- I rely on memory and looking things up in the docs. With ctags I can jump to definition/implementation of a function.
ctags has worked since the early 1990s.
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Same. ctags all the way!
I'm curious: what language are you working on where ctags are useful?
I spent years fighting with those to try to have a satisfying setup that worked, but found ctags to be high maintenance (always breaking in some way, not context-aware on untyped languages, index getting obsolete quickly and taking forever to update...), and I never looked back since trying coc.vim.
I've used it extensively with c++, rust and python, and to a lesser extent with a handful of other languages
Non context aware is a problem. For python I had to add `--python-kinds=-i` to `~/.ctags` so that it ignores imports when generating the tags.
I've also bound `<leader>t` to `:tn<cr>` and `<leader>r` to `:tp<cr>` so I can easily go back and forwards between tags if there is more than one match.