CTAGS-LANG-C(7)

🌸 ctags-lang-c 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Universal Ctags page for C source code, aka CTAGS-LANG-C(7). yes it's a whole manual page, yes it's short, yes it's still iconic 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ctags-lang-c — random notes about tagging C source code with Universal Ctags 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ctags ... --languages=+C ...
ctags ... --language-force=C ...
ctags ... --map-C=+.c ...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically this man page is a lil collection — it gathers random notes about tagging C source code. that's the whole vibe. lowkey chaotic, highkey useful 🫶

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👑 VERSIONS 👑

⭐ Change since "0.0"

the glow-up timeline, fr fr:

• 🆕 New role foreigndecl for function kind
• 🆕 New role foreigndecl for struct kind
• 🆕 New field section
• 🆕 New field alias

like… the way it just kept adding roles and fields? obsessed. not me being proud of a parser 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ctags(1)
• ctags-lang-ldscript(7)
• The new C/C++ parser https://docs.ctags.io/en/latest/parser-cxx.html ( https://docs.ctags.io/en/latest/parser-cxx.html )

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reminder bestie: this page is literally just notes. if you want the full lore, go read ctags(1) and the C/C++ parser docs. iykyk ✨

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okay that's the whole thing 💜 this was Universal Ctags version 6.2.1, manual page CTAGS-LANG-C(7). go tag some C, bestie, you're the main character of this codebase 🧚💅🍓