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A Notepad++ plugin for ctags browsing

Brought to you by: gstavi

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TagLEET uses 'tags' files that are generated by the ctags utility. You can download it from this link or install it with a cygwin environment.

To generate tags file:

Open a command shell and change directory to your project root.
Run ctags with your favorite switches.
- Recommended for beginners: ctags --extra=f --file-scope=yes -R .
- The -R . will add all directories from your project's root recursively.
- The --extra=f will add each filename as a tag so you could lookup files.
- The --file-scope=yes will add non-global tags that are 'static' in a specific file.

TagLEET is a single DLL file. Just extract it from the zip into Notepad++ plugin directory.

ALT-Space will lookup the selected tag and open a window with all the matches. If there is no selection the word on which the caret is located will be used.
From within the TagLEET window press SPACE or RETURN to jump to the highlighted tag.
Also from within the window press ALT-Space again to switch between full tag search to prefix match.
After jumping to a tag Alt+[ will take you back to the location before the jump.
Alt+] will take you forward to the location from which you used Alt+[.

Notepad++ is a Windows only application but it can be used with 'wine' or to edit files on a Linux system via SAMBA.
TagLEET will work work the same if tags file is generated by the native Linux ctags.

TagLEET was inspired by OpenCTags.
Source files for TagLEET can be found on GitHub here.