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12879 :: How is the compiler ctags command supposed to work?

• polm23 (orginal) [2025-05-08T14:45:16+02:00] view original

  I noticed that the compiler has a ctags command, which can be used like so:

  
  nim ctags code.nim
  Run

  However, there's not really any documentation for it, and it doesn't seem to work. If I run it on a simple file I get an error like:

  
  Error: cannot open '/foo/bar/htmldocs/code.ctags'
  Run

  If I make the htmldocs directory, then I get this error:

  
  assertions.nim(34)       raiseAssert
  Error: unhandled exception: options.nim(726, 3) `not conf.outFile.isEmpty`  [AssertionDefect]
  Run

  This seems to actually generate a file before failing, but the file is just a list of identifiers with no other information, not a functional tags file. If I pass --stdout I can generate the same file without getting an error. But again it's not usable.

  Am I missing something?

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• penguinite (orginal) [2025-05-09T13:06:24+02:00] view original

  If you'd like to generate tags then you could try the command in this forum post. which uses the ctags command over nim's one. (I don't know if this works)

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• ringabout (orginal) [2025-05-09T15:12:09+02:00] view original

  This seems to actually generate a file before failing, but the file is just a list of identifiers with no other information, not a functional tags file

  will be fixed in https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/24944

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• polm23 (orginal) [2025-05-10T07:12:56+02:00] view original

  Thank you both. I have replied in the original thread and on Github.

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