ctags

brew install ctags v5.8_2 GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later

Reimplementation of ctags(1)

157

30-day installs · #2881

622

90-day · #2648

3.7k

365-day · #2232

Caveats

Under some circumstances, emacs and ctags can conflict. By default,
emacs provides an executable `ctags` that would conflict with the
executable of the same name that ctags provides. To prevent this,
Homebrew removes the emacs `ctags` and its manpage before linking.

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