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ctags command lines for different situations

Coding GTK+-2.0 in C

ctags -R --c-kinds=+pxf -f ~/code/.tags `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags | sed \
's/^-pthread //' | sed 's/-I//g'` ~/code

Explanation: -R - recurses

--c-kinds=+pxf - includes function prototypes, external declarations, function definitions

-f ~/code/.tags - output tags file

`pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags | sed 's/^-pthread //' | sed 's/-I//g'` - list all gtk+-2.0 include paths

~/code - working directory

or if you wanna be hardcore, git clone everything (~769MB):

  • (304MB) git://git.gnome.org/gtk+ --branch 2.24.20,
  • (12MB) git://git.gnome.org/pango --branch 1.34.1,
  • (5.1MB) git://git.gnome.org/atk --branch ATK_2_8_0,
  • (5.8MB) git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pixman --branch pixman-0.30.0,
  • (16MB) git://git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm --branch 2.4.46,
  • (148MB) git://git.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf --branch 2.28.2,
  • (22MB) git://git.code.sf.net/p/libpng/code --branch libpng-1.6.3-signed,
  • (165MB) git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/cairo --branch 1.12.14,
  • (8.4MB) git://anongit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz --branch 0.9.19, and
  • (87MB) git://git.gnome.org/glib --branch 2.36.3

and index them instead of just the header files (the branches listed here are the current versions in Arch Linux Official packages as of July 26, 2013.

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