CTAGS-LANG-JAVASCRIPT(7)

💖 ctags-lang-javascript(7) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from Universal Ctags — the manual for ctags-lang-javascript, and it's literally just a lil scrapbook of random notes about tagging JavaScript source code. no cap. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the vibe, all three ways you can point ctags at your JS:

ctags ... --languages=+JavaScript ...
ctags ... --language-force=JavaScript ...
ctags ... --map-JavaScript=+.js ...

pick your fighter, they all work 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like. this man page is a collection. a lil grab bag. it gathers up random notes about tagging JavaScript source code — that's the whole assignment, that's it, periodt ✨

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👑 CLASSES 👑

okay so here's the tea 🍵 ES6 rolled up and introduced the class keyword — iconic of it — but the original method of doing the exact same thing never left: you define a function and then attach a prototype to it. old school but still slaying.

and ctags follows this convention: function names that start with a capital letter are class constructors. so if it's PascalCase, ctags is reading it as a constructor. iykyk 💅

🎀 Change since "0.0" 🎀

• New role foreigndecl for function kind ✨

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• ctags(1)
• ctags-client-tools(7)

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and that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓 this was version 6.2.1 of the page, from the Universal Ctags fam — go forth and tag your JavaScript, you main character 💜🌈👑