This package will take care of generating a tags file using the ctags binary
whenever needed. That is, once, when loading, and then after each file is saved.
Gutentags is designed to work with Universal Ctags, the latest and most maintained implementation of ctags, and is (unsurprisingly) inspired by vim-gutentags.
IMPORTANT: This won't work with macOS's default ctags. It needs
Universal Ctags.
It will use your .gitignore file to know what files to ignore out of the box.
Note that if you don't have ctags installed, this will do nothing. It's
designed to "just work" and remain unnoticed and out of your way.
Atom already provides support for
tagfiles so you can use symbols-view:go-to-declaration to easily navigate
through tags!
TIP: Bind it to something like
ctrl-]or use vim-mode-plus, which does this for you already, and gives you an awesome productivity boost!
By default, .gitignore will be picked up. If you want to ignore some files
only when generating tags (eg: specs, or JSON files), create a .tagignore
file. Anything valid in a .gitignore file is also valid in a .tagignore
file.
There are similar plugins out there. But they do too much for my liking. All
this does is manage the tags file, and nothing else.