The Taglist plugin is a source code browser plugin for Emacs and provides an overview of the structure of the programming language files and allows you to efficiently browse through source code files for different programming languages.
It contains some useful functions features for developers:
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Tag navigation.
When taglist-list-tags called, a new buffer is shown, containing list of different type tags. You can select the tag moving to its line and press ENTER to jump to the method. You also can type a string in the buffer and method list will be reduced to those which contain the string as a substring. Nice highlight is implemented.
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Header <-> Body file switch.
You can easily switch between body (c, cpp, cc...) and its corresponding header file (h, hpp...) using taglist-switch-h-cpp. The counterpart file is first searched in opened buffers and if there is no match the file is searched in the same directory. You can adjust body to header correspondence customizing taglist-header-switches variable.
Taglist uses ctags as backend (https://ctags.io/ or http://ctags.sourceforge.net/)
- Install ctags(exuberant-ctags) package
- Add convenient keymaps for fast taglist calls in prog-mode
(defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
(define-key c-mode-base-map (kbd "M-o") 'taglist-switch-h-cpp)
(define-key c-mode-base-map (kbd "M-m") 'taglist-list-tags))
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)
(defun my-python-mode-hook ()
(define-key python-mode-map (kbd "M-m") 'taglist-list-tags))
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'my-python-mode-hook)
(define-key lisp-mode-shared-map (kbd "M-m") 'taglist-list-tags)-
Open any programming file, press M-m. Try to type any tag name.
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Open any .cpp file. Press M-o. If there is .h or .hpp file in the same folder, it will be opened.
