z3c.recipe.tag 0.1.0

Introduction

This recipe generates a TAGS database file that can be used with a number of different editors to quickly lookup class and function definitions in your package’s source files and egg dependencies.

Dependencies

Before running a tags enabled buildout, you must install the appropriate command line tag generation tools: exuberant-ctags and id-utils. In Ubuntu, you can install these with apt-get:

$ sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags id-utils

How to use this recipe

Suppose you have an egg called MyApplication. To use this recipe with buildout, you would add the following to the buildout.cfg file:

[tags]
recipe = z3c.recipe.tag:tags
eggs = MyApplication

This produces a script file in the bin/ directory which you can then run like this:

$ ./bin/tags

This script produces a file called TAGS in the directory from which you ran the script. You can then use this file in your editor of choice (e.g. emacs).

0.1.0 (2008-03-16)

• Initial release.

  • buildout recipe for generating ctags of eggs used.