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		kingkongrevenge on April 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ Fro... ctags on C++: ctags -R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q .

ori_b on April 22, 2009 [–]

ctags takes an environment variable for it's options, too:

    export CTAGS='-R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q'

and then you can just run 'ctags .'

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