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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.36.
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.TH ctags-le "1" "December 2008" "Exuberant Ctags 5.6" "User Commands"
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\- Exuberant Ctags 5.6, Copyright (C) 1996-2004 Darren Hiebert
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[\fIoptions\fR] [\fIfile(s)\fR]
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Exuberant Ctags 5.6, Copyright (C) 1996\-2004 Darren Hiebert
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Append the tags to an existing tag file.
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Use backward searching patterns (?...?).
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Output tag file for use with Emacs.
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Write tags to specified file. Value of "\-" writes tags to stdout
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["tags"; or "TAGS" when \fB\-e\fR supplied].
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Use forward searching patterns (/.../) (default).
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Specify list of file extensions to be treated as include files.
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[".h.H.hh.hpp.hxx.h++"].
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\fB\-I\fR <list|@file>
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A list of tokens to be specially handled is read from either the
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command line or the specified file.
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A list of source file names are read from the specified file.
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If specified as "\-", then standard input is read.
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Equivalent to \fB\-\-excmd\fR=\fInumber\fR.
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Equivalent to \fB\-\-excmd\fR=\fIpattern\fR.
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Alternative for \fB\-f\fR.
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Equivalent to \fB\-\-recurse\fR.
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Equivalent to \fB\-\-sort\fR=\fIno\fR.
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Equivalent to \fB\-\-verbose\fR.
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Print a tabular cross reference file to standard output.
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\fB\-\-append\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Should tags should be appended to existing tag file [no]?
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\fB\-\-etags\-include\fR=\fIfile\fR
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Include reference to 'file' in Emacs\-style tag file (requires \fB\-e\fR).
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\fB\-\-exclude\fR=\fIpattern\fR
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Exclude files and directories matching 'pattern'.
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\fB\-\-excmd\fR=\fInumber\fR|pattern|mix
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Uses the specified type of EX command to locate tags [mix].
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\fB\-\-extra\fR=\fI[\fR+|\-]flags
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Include extra tag entries for selected information (flags: "fq").
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\fB\-\-fields\fR=\fI[\fR+|\-]flags
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Include selected extension fields (flags: "afmikKlnsStz") [fks].
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\fB\-\-file\-scope\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Should tags scoped only for a single file (e.g. "static" tags
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be included in the output [yes]?
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\fB\-\-filter\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Behave as a filter, reading file names from standard input and
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writing tags to standard output [no].
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\fB\-\-filter\-terminator\fR=\fIstring\fR
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Specify string to print to stdout following the tags for each file
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parsed when \fB\-\-filter\fR is enabled.
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\fB\-\-format\fR=\fIlevel\fR
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Force output of specified tag file format [2].
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Print this option summary.
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\fB\-\-if0\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Should C code within #if 0 conditional branches be parsed [no]?
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\fB\-\-\fR<LANG>\-kinds=[+|\-]kinds
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Enable/disable tag kinds for language <LANG>.
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\fB\-\-langdef\fR=\fIname\fR
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Define a new language to be parsed with regular expressions.
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\fB\-\-langmap\fR=\fImap\fR(s)
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Override default mapping of language to source file extension.
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\fB\-\-language\-force\fR=\fIlanguage\fR
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Force all files to be interpreted using specified language.
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\fB\-\-languages\fR=\fI[\fR+|\-]list
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Restrict files scanned for tags to those mapped to langauges
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specified in the comma\-separated 'list'. The list can contain any
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built\-in or user\-defined language [all].
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Print details of software license.
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\fB\-\-line\-directives\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Should #line directives be processed [no]?
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\fB\-\-links\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Indicate whether symbolic links should be followed [yes].
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\fB\-\-list\-kinds\fR=\fI[language\fR|all]
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Output a list of all tag kinds for specified language or all.
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\fB\-\-list\-languages\fR
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Output list of supported languages.
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\fB\-\-list\-maps\fR=\fI[language\fR|all]
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Output list of language mappings.
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\fB\-\-options\fR=\fIfile\fR
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Specify file from which command line options should be read.
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\fB\-\-recurse\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Recurse into directories supplied on command line [no].
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\fB\-\-regex\-\fR<LANG>=/line_pattern/name_pattern/[flags]
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Define regular expression for locating tags in specific language.
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\fB\-\-sort\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no|foldcase]
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Should tags be sorted (optionally ignoring case) [yes]?.
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\fB\-\-tag\-relative\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Should paths be relative to location of tag file [no; yes when \fB\-e]\fR?
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\fB\-\-totals\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Print statistics about source and tag files [no].
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\fB\-\-verbose\fR=\fI[yes\fR|no]
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Enable verbose messages describing actions on each source file.
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Print version identifier to standard output.
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This manual page was written by Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@gmail.com> for the
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Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy,
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distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public
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License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software
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On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be
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found in /usr/share/common-licenses.
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