Re: Parsing tags (gnatxref)

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> writes:

> For vim and other utilities there are tools for using tags that are
> generated from exhuberant ctags. (http://ctags.sf.net) However ctags
> doesn't support Ada, but with gnat there is gnatxref.
> 
> gnatxref has a switch for generating Vi compatible tag lists, but it
> gives a too minimalistic list. I mean that it doesn't include
> information on what the different tags is like procedure, function,
> object etc... 

If "standard" vi (or Vim) can use this information, then "standard"
gnatxref should output it; send in a request to report@gnat.com. Since
they already generate the info, it should not be hard to add to the
"vi" output.

Better yet, get the sources, do the mod yourself, and send that in :).

> So I'm looking into making a program for parsing the full tag file
> that gnatxref can generate. However before I start doing this I
> would like to know if somebody else have already done this?

There is code in Emacs ada-mode to deal with gnatxref; I'm not sure
exactly how it works. But I guess you meant "has anybody already done
this for vim".

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