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Helm Gtags contribution layer for Spacemacs
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Description
helm-gtags
and ggtags
are clients for GNU Global. GNU Global is a source
code tagging system that allows querying symbol locations in source code, such
as definitions or references.
Features
- Select any tag in a project retrieves by gtags
- Resume previous helm-gtags session
- Jump to a location based on context
- Find definitions
- Find references
- Present tags in current function only
- Create a tag database
- Jump to definitions in file
- Show stack of visited locations
- Manually update tag database
- Jump to next location in context stack
- Jump to previous location in context stack
- Jump to a file in tag database
Install
GNU Global
You can install helm-gtags
from the software repository of your OS. For example, in Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install global
To use helm-gtags
, you first have to install GNU Global.
Download the latest tar.gz archive, then run these commands:
tar xvf global-6.4.tar.gz
cd global-6.4
./configure
make
sudo make install
To use this contribution add it to your ~/.spacemacs
(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(gtags))
Usage
Before using the helm-gtags, remember to create a GTAGS database by the following methods:
- From within Emacs, runs the command
helm-gtags-create-tags
, which is bound toSPC m g c
. If the language is not directly supported by GNU Global, you can choosectags
orpygment
as a backend to generate tag database. - From inside terminal, runs gtags at your project root in terminal:
cd /path/to/project/root
gtags
If the language is not directly supported by gtags
but ctags
, use this command instead:
gtags --gtagslabel=ctags
Eldoc integration
This layer also integrates ggtags
for its Eldoc feature. That means, when
writing code, you can look at the minibuffer (at the bottom) and see variable
and function definition of the symbol the cursor is on. However, this feature is
only activated for programming modes that are not one of these languages:
- C mode
- C++ mode
- Common Lisp
- Emacs Lisp
- Python
- Ruby-mode
Since these modes have better Eldoc integration already.
Key bindings
Key Binding | Description |
---|---|
SPC m g c |
create a tag database |
SPC m g f |
jump to a file in tag database |
SPC m g g |
jump to a location based on context |
SPC m g G |
jump to a location based on context (open another window) |
SPC m g d |
find definitions |
SPC m g i |
present tags in current function only |
SPC m g l |
jump to definitions in file |
SPC m g n |
jump to next location in context stack |
SPC m g p |
jump to previous location in context stack |
SPC m g r |
find references |
SPC m g R |
resume previous helm-gtags session |
SPC m g s |
select any tag in a project retrieved by gtags |
SPC m g S |
show stack of visited locations |
SPC m g u |
manually update tag database |