Re: [Ctags] Informix 4gl

[Darren H. <dhi...@us...>]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, William Rickards wrote:

> I've never used ctags in any form before.
> However, it seems just what I'm looking for when I edit my source files with Vim.
> I currently use combinations of #, *, gD to find things under the cursor.
> Unfortunately, I don't see the language I primarily use, Informix 4gl, listed in the supported languages.
> So I found some itags implementations and I want to try to write a language extension to ctags for Informix 4gl.
> 
> Is there anybody already working on this?

Not to my knowledge. First, try to put together regex patterns for
what you need using the --langdef and --regex-<LANG> options. You
can put the patterns into your personal option configuration file
and it is almost like having built-in support. One you get patterns
that work for you, you can then make a custom built-in parser using
the patterns you designed (see http://ctags.sourceforge.net/EXTENDING.html).

> I see reference to ctags being bundled with Vim but I don't see any ctags.exe
> except the one I just downloaded.  I assume this is because I'm on windows.

Ctags is no longer included with Vim because the author wanted to
keep the distribution for Vim fitting on a 1.44MB floppy and felt
ctags had become too big to include, anyway.

Where did you see a current reference to it still being included?

> So please forgive the newby question, but how do I get this working on windows?

Getting what working?

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