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NAME
otags - generate tags files for emacs and vi/vim from OCaml sources
SYNOPSIS
otags [STATIC-OPTION] ... [FILE] ... [DYNAMIC-OPTION] ... [FILE] ...
DESCRIPTION
otags generates TAGS files for emacs and tags files for vi/vim to give these editors the
ability to directly jump to function and value definitions (use M-. in Emacs and ^] in
vi[m] with the cursor on the symbol).
otags uses the standard OCaml parser from the compiler-libs library. This is more precise
than regular expression based tagging. On the downside, otags can only tag syntactically
correct files. Furthermore, otags is OCaml version specific: Sources to be compiled with
OCaml version X.Y can, in general, only be tagged with otags version X.Y. This version of
otags does not support -pp or -ppx preprocessors and can therefore not tag files using
syntax extensions or containing top level directives. For tagging all files in a directory
tree, see option -r below.
otags tags all toplevel items in structures and signatures, including infix operators and
nested modules and signatures. It also tags instance variables and methods in classes.
Filenames FILE on the command line are parsed as interfaces if they have a .mli suffix and
as implementations if they have a .ml suffix. (See also the dynamic options -intf and
-impl.)
Tag files can contain absolute and/or relative file names. Otags uses the file names from
the command line for the tags file. Specifying relative file names on the command line
will therefore give you a tag file with relative file names. Obviously, a tag file with
relative file names will only work if it is located in the directory where otags was
started. Otags supports writing a tags file with relative file names in a parent
directory via option -add-path.
STATIC OPTIONS
Static options take effect on the whole program run, regardless of their position in the
command line.
-r Descend into directories. With this option, if one of the FILE arguments is a
directory otags will recursively tag all files in this whole directory tree.
-o file
Write tags to file. The default is TAGS (for emacs) and tags for vi (if the -vi
option is given) in the current directory. If file is a dash ( - ) the tags are
written to standard output.
-a Append to an existing TAGS file (does only work for emacs TAGS files).
-vi Generate tags for vi and change the default output file into tags.
-add-path path
Add path at the front of every relative file name in the tags file. Useful when
you want to put the tags file in a parent directory.
-version
Print version and exit.
-v Verbose. Print file names as they are parsed and the command lines for externally
started camlp4 parsing processes (if any). If -v is the first command line
argument, backtraces for exceptions are enabled and printed if an exception escapes
and terminates otags (which is considered a bug, about which I would appreciate a
bug report).
-q Be quiet.
-help Print the option list.
--help Alias for -help
DYNAMIC OPTIONS
Dynamic options do only affect arguments that follow them on the command line.
-intf FILE
Parse and tag FILE as an interface.
-impl FILE
Parse and tag FILE as implementation.
EXAMPLES
Tag all .ml and .mli files in the current directory tree:
otags -r .
Files with syntax errors will be ignored. The error messages can be disabled with option
-q.
DIAGNOSTICS
Parse errors are reported with normal OCaml error messages. No tags are generated for
files that produce errors. Tagging continues with the next file, in this case. Warnings
are always completely disabled.
The errors "Original source not available" and "The parser delivered an invalid location"
might be reported if the file contains a line directive that refers to a position and/or a
file that cannot be resolved.
For files containing a toplevel directive, Otags simply reports a syntax error (as ocamlc
does).
Escaping exceptions and assertions that terminate otags are considered to be bugs. If they
occur, please use option -v as first command line switch to obtain an exception backtrace
and submit this with all relevant information as bug report.
EXIT STATUS
0 everything went OK
1 a parse error or some other error occurred and otags skipped the affected file
2 a fatal error caused otags to abort
3 some bug caused a crash, from which otags could only marginally recover
MISSING FEATURES
Appending to vi tags files requires to reread the existing tags file, because vi tags
files are sorted.
-pp and -ppx preprocessors are currently not supported.
HISTORY
The first camlp4 based OCaml tagger has been written by Cuihtlauac Alvarado and Jean-
Francois Monin. Around 2005 I took over and released a few versions for OCaml 3.09. All
otags versions released up to 3.09.3.3 were written for the original camlp4, which is now
available as camlp5.
For 3.11 I rewrote otags from scratch for the new camlp4 and released several versions
under the name otags reloaded. The modular structure of camlp4 made it possible to switch
the parsing engine at runtime between files and to parse all syntax supported by camlp4 at
full native speed without external camlp4 processes. However, the increasing
incompatibility between camlp4 and OCaml and camlp4's sloppiness on parsing locations
created more and more difficulties. For instance, 4.02 failed on the OCaml standard
library because camlp4 was unable to digest the attribute annotations in there.
Starting from 4.03, otags is based on the standard OCaml parser from the compiler-libs
library and has been renamed to otags III.
AUTHOR
Hendrik Tews <otags at askra.de>
SEE ALSO
etags(1), ctags(1)