I'm using Exuberant ctags to index Erlang files.
The "tags" file contains functions, but they do not have module qualifiers; so I can't search for "module:function", only "function", which may give several results.
Do you know a way to get ctags to include module qualifiers in the tags file?
Thanks.
It sounds like you are not using the Erlang etags module: Generate Emacs TAGS file from Erlang source files.
Exuberant ctags already supports tag field "module" for Erlang.
$ /usr/bin/ctags --version
Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
Compiled: Aug 17 2010, 17:33:33
Addresses: <[email protected]>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex
$ /usr/bin/ctags xref_parser.erl
A typical tag line with a tag field named "module" looks like:
yeccgoto_const xref_parser.erl /^yeccgoto_const(24=_S, Cat, Ss, Stack, T, Ts, Tzr) ->$/;" f module:xref_parser
Actually, it is VIM which doesn't support this tag field as for now. From VIM doc:
{field} .. A list of optional fields. Each field has the form:
<Tab>{fieldname}:{value}
The {fieldname} identifies the field, and can only contain
alphabetical characters [a-zA-Z].
The {value} is any string, but cannot contain a <Tab>.
There is one field that doesn't have a ':'. This is the kind
of the tag. It is handled like it was preceded with "kind:".
See the documentation of ctags for the kinds it produces.
The only other field currently recognized by Vim is "file:"
(with an empty value). It is used for a static tag.
That's it. Only "kind" and "file" are supported tag field names.