sergeyromanov / bash-completion-plugins-vimtag

Bash completion plugin for vim tags

NAME

Bash::Completion::Plugins::VimTag - Bash completion plugin for vim tags

DESCRIPTION

This is a Bash::Completion plugin that can complete on tags generated by ctags. My setup places all tags files from different projects in a ~/.ctagsdir directory so vim can know about them regardless of the current directory:

~/.ctagsdir
├── project1
│   └── tags
├── project2
│   └── tags
└── perlbrew
    └── tags

My .vimrc then contains:

set tags+=~/.ctagsdir/*/tags

And .bashrc contains:

alias vit='vi -t'

If you keep your tags in a different directory - for example, your main repository directory -, you can set the CTAGSDIR environment variable to that directory and this plugin will scan the tags files in that directory.

The reason for the perlbrew/tags file shown in the tree above is that I want to have tags for all installed modules, so I generate them with:

find $PERLBREW_ROOT/perls/$PERLBREW_PERL/lib -name \*.pm | \
    ctags -f ~/.ctagsdir/perlbrew/tags --recurse --languages=Perl -L -;