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diff --git a/runtime/doc/usr_29.txt b/runtime/doc/usr_29.txt index 3381d1870c..d8c556c281 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/usr_29.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/usr_29.txt @@ -33,10 +33,12 @@ following command: > ctags *.c "ctags" is a separate program. Most Unix systems already have it installed. -If you do not have it yet, you can find Exuberant ctags here: - +If you do not have it yet, you can find Universal/Exuberant ctags at: + http://ctags.io ~ http://ctags.sf.net ~ +Universal ctags is preferred, Exuberant ctags is no longer being developed. + Now when you are in Vim and you want to go to a function definition, you can jump to it by using the following command: > @@ -142,15 +144,15 @@ ONE TAGS FILE When Vim has to search many places for tags files, you can hear the disk rattling. It may get a bit slow. In that case it's better to spend this time while generating one big tags file. You might do this overnight. - This requires the Exuberant ctags program, mentioned above. It offers an -argument to search a whole directory tree: > + This requires the Universal or Exuberant ctags program, mentioned above. +It offers an argument to search a whole directory tree: > cd ~/proj ctags -R . -The nice thing about this is that Exuberant ctags recognizes various file -types. Thus this doesn't work just for C and C++ programs, also for Eiffel -and even Vim scripts. See the ctags documentation to tune this. +The nice thing about this is that Universal/Exuberant ctags recognizes various +file types. Thus this doesn't work just for C and C++ programs, also for +Eiffel and even Vim scripts. See the ctags documentation to tune this. Now you only need to tell Vim where your big tags file is: > :set tags=~/proj/tags @@ -232,7 +234,8 @@ A TAGS BROWSER Since CTRL-] takes you to the definition of the identifier under the cursor, you can use a list of identifier names as a table of contents. Here is an example. - First create a list of identifiers (this requires Exuberant ctags): > + First create a list of identifiers (this requires Universal or Exuberant +ctags): > ctags --c-types=f -f functions *.c |