Tag list to efficiently browse source code files for different programming languages: vim plugin/ctags

Installing ctag utility

Download and install ctag utility (ctags-5.8.tar.gz ) from location: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/

Follow the instructions:

1.       Extract the tar contents by executing tar command

tar –xvzf ctags-5.8.tar.gz

2.       change directory to ctags-5.8 and execute following command to install ctags

./configure

make

make install

3.       If the ctag installation uses non-standard location, Setup .vimrc as per installed ctag binary path: set the following path variable in .vimrc

 let Tlist_Ctags_Cmd = "//bin/ctags"

Few tips to setup .vimrc for indentation, line numbers, syntax highlighting etc   

Example .vimrc

 set nocompatible | filetype indent plugin on | syn on |

 set nu

 set shiftwidth=4

 set tabstop=4

 let Tlist_Ctags_Cmd = "/opt/rhel/bin/ctags"

nnoremap   :TlistToggle

Installing vim-taglist plugin

Download and install taglist plugin for vim version 6.0 or above, download location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vim-taglist/files/

Follow the instructions as:

1.       Copy the downloaded file to your home directory containing .vim directory

2.       Extract the zip contents

unzip  Download taglist_46.zip

3.        The unzip contains plugin/taglist.vim file (main taglist plugin file) and doc/taglist.txt (documentation file)

4.       Open any source code file in vim and use ‘:TlistToggle’ to open-close tag list window.