On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:54:29PM +0100, Alois Cochard wrote:
Hi,
Just to let you know that I released a tool which allow to generate a tags[1] file for a given cabal project using the sources of all the dependencies of that project.
`cabal install codex`
Slight issue with base 4.6 installed: $ cabal install --reinstall codex Resolving dependencies... cabal: Could not resolve dependencies: trying: codex-0.0.1.1 (user goal) next goal: base (dependency of codex-0.0.1.1) rejecting: base-4.6.0.1/... (conflict: codex => base>=4.7 && It does install fine with the .cabal patched to accept: base >=4.6 && <4.8
You can simply run `codex update` in one of your cabal project directory and you'll get a 'codex.tags' file to feed in your favorite text editors.
It store the source code in the hackage local cache, and it store there as well the tags file per module (so the tool just aggregate per project).
I hope it will be useful to other hackers, it's a joy for me in vim when using unknown libraries.
Note: This tool actually use `ctags` but that could be easily made configurable if someone need it, integrating native haskell tagger is an option too. I personally like using ctags, it's very fast.
After generating a tags file with 'codex update', I have a bunch of references to .c and .h files. I can't see ctags being particularly useful for cabal projects but perhaps I'm missing something? I would personally use your tool if it were to provide an aggregate of tag files generated by something like hothasktags. -- Christian Marie - Sparkly Code Princess