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November 14th, 2007I have written a symbol browsing (function browser, class browser, etc.) plugin for Gedit, the default GNOME text editor. The plugin is based on Exuberant Ctags (ctags.sourceforge.net) which must be installed to use the plugin.
- Supports 34 programming languages (based on ctags)
- Symbols displayed in a tree grouped by symbol type
- Icons for symbols can be added for any symbol type ctags can parse
- Works with local and remote files (SSH, FTP, etc.)
- View symbols from active tab or from all opened documents
- Optionally show line number, programming language, and source file in the tree
- Double-click a symbol to jump to it in the source code
The plugin is written in C and thus needs to be compiled with the Gedit sources for your distribution if a binary package isn't available. You can check which binary packages are available on the Gedit Symbol Browser Plugin SourceForge project page.
Binary Installation
cp gedit-symbol-browser-plugin*.tar.gz ~/.gnome2/gedit/
tar -xzf gedit-symbol-browser-plugin*.tar.gz
Source Installation
If a binary package isn't available, you have to compile the plugin yourself. If you do so, please email the plugin files to me at email (at) micahcarrick.com so that I can provide a binary package.
To compile the plugin, you must do so within the gedit source tree. Then, you can either install it with that build of gedit or copy the files yourself without compiling or installing gedit. Download and extract the gedit sources to a folder. Download Gedit Symbol Browser Plugin sources and extract to the gedit sources plugins folder (ex: gedit-2.20.3/plugins/).
Edit configure.ac, adding 2 lines to AC_CONFIG_FILES
plugins/symbolbrowser/Makefile plugins/symbolbrowser/symbols/Makefile
Edit plugins/Makefile.am, adding to 'symbolbrowser' to DIST_SUBDIRS and SUBDIRS.
Run autoconf and automake, and ./configure in the gedit source dir and then make in the symbolbrowser plugin dir:
autoconf
automake
./configure
cd plugins/symbolbrowser
make
Now if you were to run 'make install' here, it might not install the plugin to the right location. This is because many distributions, by default, install binary (rpm's, dep's, etc.) into a different location that files built from source (/usr/ vs. /usr/local/). So, the easiest way to install the plugin is to simply copy plugin files to your home dir:
cp symbolbrowser.gedit-plugin .libs/libsymbolbrowser.so ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/
cp -r symbols ~/.gnome2/gedit/
If you want to install it for all users using 'make install', you'll have to pass the target during the ./configure step. You can find out where the other gedit plugins are already installed by doing:
updatedb
locate gedit-2/plugins
And look for them in something like /usr/lib. Then, you can rerun the configure as shown above passing in the lib dir:
./configure --libdir=/usr/lib
Assuming you're okay with the simpler method (installing the plugin in your home dir), the entire process might look something like this:
# DOWNLOAD AND EXTRACT SOURCES
cd ~
wget ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/2.20/gedit-2.20.3.tar.gz
tar -xzf gedit-2.20.3.tar.gz
cd gedit-2.20.3
cd plugins
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/symbol-browser/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-0.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-0.1.tar.gz
# EDIT MAKE AND CONFIGURE FILES
sed -i 's/SUBDIRS =/SUBDIRS = \t\\\n\tsymbolbrowser\t/g' Makefile.am
sed -i 's/DIST_SUBDIRS =/DIST_SUBDIRS =\t\\\n\tsymbolbrowser\t/g' Makefile.am
cd ..
sed -i 's/AC_CONFIG_FILES(\[/AC_CONFIG_FILES(\[\nplugins\/symbolbrowser\/Makefile/g' configure.ac
# BUILD THE PLUGIN
autoconf
automake
./configure
cd plugins/symbolbrowser
make
# COPY TO HOME FOLDER
# Note: if you ran ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib then make install may work
cp symbolbrowser.gedit-plugin .libs/libsymbolbrowser.so ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/
cp -r symbols ~/.gnome2/gedit/
If ctags finds a type of symbol, then Gedit Symbol Browser Plugin adds it to the tree view. If it doesn't find the icon for that symbol you can add it yourself if you wish (send them to me too!). All symbol icons are simply named "symbol-
- Build Instructions for CBLFS: Gedit - CBLFS
- Debian i386 Binary: gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-bin-debian-i386-0.1.tar.gz
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November 15th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Congratulation, Micah that is really nice!
That is what i needed to port SweeTS ( typo3.area42.de ) to gEdit/ Linux.
Did you know how to add own formats to Ctags?
BTW I wrote some gEdit plugins too:
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-browser-preview-plugin
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/gedit-language-reference-plugin
November 15th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Hello Micah,
i played around with it and started compiling ctags myself with css support using this source:
http://cssed.sourceforge.net/ctags/css.c
But the HTML support looks quite bad too :( But I'm not goog in regular expressions for doing something fine, i looked in the html.c of ctags sources and it looks really poor.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Great idea!
Few notes on the source install instructions:
config.ac should be configure.ac
./configure needed after automake and before cd plugins/symbolbrowser
To get "make install" to put the symbols in the place the plugin is expecting I had to:
sed -i "s:symbolsdir = \$(libdir)/gedit-2/symbols:symbolsdir = \$(datadir)/gedit-2/symbolbrowser/symbols:" symbols/Makefile.am
November 15th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Hi!
Thank so much for this plugin. I like a lot and as you request I've compiled the source and I got the library (ia32). I wanted to mail you with it and my screenshot :) but I can't find your email.
If you are interested I have a tar.gz ready to send. I wrote down my email in the form so I suppose that you can reach me.
Thanks again.
November 15th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I've updated the build instructions. Thanks for the feedback guys.
November 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
I have been using Gedit only as a notepad replacement all the while ... so was very excited with both your articles on Gedit! I had done the changes with the preferences already ... and was very eager to try out the symbol browser plugin ... I got that installed but I found that I had to install ctags on my Ubuntu installation.
'sudo apt-get install ctags'
did the trick for me, but am still unable to figure out how to get that tree structure in my Gedit :(
November 16th, 2007 at 6:54 am
will come in handy. although like the html, the ruby ctags seems to have a few issues, but that's not your fault. thanks for that! p.s. i did a little write up on gedit for ruby on ubuntu which you might be interested in: http://crepuscular-homunculus.blogspot.com/2007/10/gedit-for-ruby-and-everything-else-on.html
November 16th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Hey, thanks for the plugin, i found it very useful.
Just one thing i noticed when i installed the plugin on my machine:
Gentoo renames the binary from "ctags" to "exuberant-ctags" due to another binary named ctags in the system.
In the ctags-ebuild from gentoo it says "namepace collision with X/Emacs-provided /usr/bin/ctags".
This requires to exchange "ctags" for "exuberant-ctags" twice in the file "gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-defs.h" , followed by a "make" and copying over the files for the plugin to work on this systems.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:14 am
RE: fbloeink
Thanks for the information! I'll have to modify the file so that it uses a define in the makefile to determine the ctags command it will used. Perhaps erhaps exuberant-ctags will work on all systems. I'll ask around.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Re: prem
Once ctags is installed, and the plugin is installed, you activate it through:
edit > preferences > plugins
If "Symbol Browser" isn't in the list, then the plugin isn't installed correctly. If it is in the list, make sure it's checked and that ctags is found. Click 'Configure' and the configure dialog should either show the output of 'ctags --version' or say 'NOT INSTALLED'.
Once it's installed and activated, the treeview lives in the left pane which can be seen using 'View' > 'Left Pane'
November 19th, 2007 at 7:08 am
[...] Gedit Symbol Browser Plugin 是一个不错的 Gedit 插件，该插件基于 Ctags，提供包括函数浏览、类浏览等功能。Gedit Symbol Browser Plugin 支持 34 种程序语言，可根据符号类型按树状结构分组显示，能为符号类型添加图标，支持本地和远程的文件，可从活动标签或打开的文档查看符号，能够显示行号、程序语言、以及源文件，双击符号可跳转到源代码中的相应位置等等。 [...]
November 27th, 2007 at 4:03 am
Hey!
I get following error when I run make inside directory gedit/plugins/symbolbrowser. Previous installing setps I did as told. I have Fedora Core 7.
*** No rule to make target `am--refresh'. Stop.
P.S. I am quite few experiences with linux yet.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Re: Mattiko
Sounds a bit like you didn't run autoconf, automake, and ./configure in the top-level gedit source directory. I know this can be a bit confusing for a beginner.
I think I have a Fedora installation on another machine, and I'll see if I can build a fedora binary (which you would just have to copy to the right folder instead of compiling).
November 30th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Just installed exuberant-ctags on Ubuntu Gutsy, and downloaded the gedit symbol browser bin i386 archive
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/symbol-browser/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-bin-ubuntu-i386-0.1.tar.gz?modtime=1195036992&big_mirror=0
Unpack this in ~/.gnome2/gedit
Start gedit, edit > preferences > plugins and enable the symbol browser. It's that easy!
November 30th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Yes, there is a binary for ubuntu i386 and ubuntu amd64. If anybody can help me out, I'll post the binaries for FC7 too.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Is this supposed to show class methods? Mine only shows class variables.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Re: michael depetrillo
It is based on ctags. So if ctags can find your class methods as methods, then it will show up in the plugin. It just parses the output of ctags and groups them in the treeview by type.
So you may want to read up on ctags at ctags.sourceforge.net for the language you are talking about.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:10 am
I just installed the ubuntu binaries and load a php file en gedit. (example.module)
But the Symbol Browser panel it's empty.
I installed exuberant-ctags, but is still empty.
Then I renamed example.module to example.php and the plugin works :)
Can't symbol Browser detect the file type automatically?
December 16th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Gocho:
It passes the file to ctags, so it depends on how ctags determines the type. Curious, what does gedit report as the mime type? Perhaps I could use gedit's mime-type determination and force the type when calling ctags.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Very nice, thanks :D
I have compiling on i386 Debian : ftp://ftp-developpez.com/nicolasj/temp/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-bin-debian-i386-0.1.tar.gz
Ready to unpack in ~/.gnome2/gedit/ ;)
February 19th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I'm having trouble with the source tarball. The configure.ac files are missing, and it contains .deps directories. So I think it got messed up somehow. Any chance you could post a fixed-up version?
I also noticed that you don't have any files in CVS at SF. Wouldn't it make sense to have the files in CVS or Subversion, rather than just posting tarballs?
February 21st, 2008 at 11:16 am
"I'm having trouble with the source tarball. The configure.ac files are missing, and it contains .deps directories. So I think it got messed up somehow. Any chance you could post a fixed-up version?"
It needs to be compiled along with the Gedit sources, using Gedit's configure.ac. The instructions above explain how to edit gedit's configure scripts to make sure the plugin is compiled.
"I also noticed that you don't have any files in CVS at SF. Wouldn't it make sense to have the files in CVS or Subversion, rather than just posting tarballs?"
I don't expect it to be updated frequently enough nor be a popular enough project for that. But, perhaps down the road.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:31 am
Wow. That's exactly what I was looking for.
Just a note. I tried to install it on a PC running Ubuntu 7.04 and the plugin was not able to find the 2.0 version of the libgtksourceview library. Since it seems that version 2.0 is not present in the Ubuntu Feisty repository, I had to fix it by creating a new symbolic link (named 2.0) to the actually present 1.0 version and it seems to correctly work now.
Was it a known issue?
February 29th, 2008 at 5:12 am
hi,
thanks for this well written article. I have customized my gedit in fedora 8. now it is so cool to work with. i downloaded binary files of symbol browser plugin and copied meant for ubuntu. it is working so smoothly. So why don't call it binary package for fedora also.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:52 am
Hi,
i follow your istruction,everything go well(in compilation of plugin).but when i use the plugin ,for example with C file,in the your plugin sidebar nothing ! a clear windows!
I use gedit 2.22.0 in Arch Linux distribution. i hope you know the problem!
April 9th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Thank you man!
Here we work with a particular scripting language called "chilli" for which it exists an unique parser, for UltraEdit32. But, since I don't use Windows, I was just looking for a tool/plugin that could permit me to add the support for this language to my gnome editors. After spending a week on Anjuta, I came across your gedit plugin, and it was immediately love :)
And now I have finally a function listing for the chilli language. Thanks again.
PS: Maybe should I send you the regexps?
April 17th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Hi,
I'm trying to install gedit plugins but everything in the ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins are ignored. All tutorials explain this installation directory but it doesn't work here on my out-of-the-box Red Hat installation. Anyone knows why?
April 30th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Seriously, I love you for this one. Makes my gedit SO MUCH MORE. Plan to use gedit only now for PHP :P
June 6th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
[...] gedit as a Web Developer’s IDE. Esta entrada es de uno de los creadores de precisamente un plugin de gedit, habla sobre sus preferencias al usar Gedit, su plugin, cómo tener a la mano las diferentes [...]
June 14th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Hi Micah,
Thank you very much for this nice idea, i tried the binary package but it does not work with me i hope if you make a debian package, i'm using Hardy heron.
I can find the plugin in the list of plugins available, i enabled it but when i open any file i did not get any symbols displayed :(
Best Regards
June 14th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hi Micah,
sorry for disturbance but after ctags, the plugin worked :).
sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags
June 17th, 2008 at 9:24 am
[...] Symbol Browser Shows a list of classes, functions, enums and class [...]
July 11th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Would be nice to get symbols out of files with extensions like .module or .install (for Drupal CMS)
regards peter
August 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hi,
Thanks for the plugin. There was a problem with the installation instructions for the binary package. ~/.gnome/gedit does not exist and I could not create the directory because a file called gedit did exist.
I did a system wide install by extracting the tar.gz to /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins.
This put a plugins directory inside the already existing plugins directory so I copied the contents of the symbol-browser plugins directory into the main plugins directory and left the new symbols directory alone.
It works now.
Thanks
August 12th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Aha this is neat. Just what I needed to make Gedit into the ultimate programmers Swiss Army Knife! Would love to see this bundled by default with the other common Gedit plugins on Ubuntu and other distros. Cheers.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:55 am
The plugin is neat, but there's major problem with it: it doesn't group classes and the methods/attributes belonging to it together. I'm thinking of either extending the plugin or completely rewriting it in Python. This would make it a lot more easy to install.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:06 am
http://greg.geekmind.org/tagbrowser/
That's my first shot at a Python implementation. Several things are different:
- It groups by class/struct/etc instead of by tag type, which makes a lot more sense with OO code
- It strictly only works on a single file per tab
- It is capable of tracking line changes of tags
- No complicated compiling within the GEdit source tree needed, just extract the files to ~/.gnome2/gedit :)
I used the icons provided by your plugin. I hope that's okay.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Great plugin.
Is there a chance, that you make a popup-window available
that could be used instead of the side pane. This would make
the workflow even better in my opinion. It could work
like the switcher or the snap-open plugin.
Best,
Marco
August 27th, 2008 at 6:46 am
greg:
I agree, grouping members into the classes would be ideal. Currently, I'm not actually parsing the code (as I don't know all of those 45 languages) as I'm relying on ctags to do that part. It's also missing proper HTML and CSS parsing. However, ctags is under constant development and I know some CVS versions were allowing for some of these things. Perhaps it is much simpler to use ctags with some hacks.
As for python, I originally planned on using Python but went with C since there are some times in my work where I might have as many as 25 open files, some of which are close to 10000 lines of code. I don't want any delay while that treeview loads and didn't want to mess with asychronous code at this point. That was my though process anyway....
August 27th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Macro:
Yeah, I'll keep that in mind for future versions. I don't prefer working like that but I know some people do. I could have it be one of the preferences. Not too tricky.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Micah,
Thanks heaps for this! A feature request (unless it's already implemented and I can't find it):
It would be good to be able to point to the TAGS file so if I have a tree of code in a heap of different directories, I can just run "etags -R" in the base directory, and then point the plugin to that TAGS file and get the listing for functions that may be in a header in an include directory, that is below the current source directory.
Nick
September 5th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Micah:
I use ctags for parsing too, its output carries the information needed for class grouping. However, fully parsing the exuberant ctags output format in itself isn't so easy; it might be a much better solution to write specialized parsers for the most used languages.
In the current state the plugin is sufficient for me though.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Greg:
I did not know that. One of these days I'll get around to dinking with that.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:45 am
good,perfect plugin.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Awesome plugin! I'd really like to see this plugin as a standard plugin in Gedit someday!
October 9th, 2008 at 1:25 am
[...] Gedit plugin - symbol browser Posted on October 9, 2008 by firmit I came across this excellent site today - the post is actually a year old, but I am still new in the linux world, so this is a nice feature for me! http://www.micahcarrick.com/11-14-2007/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin.html [...]
October 24th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Just installed it, seems nice so far, thank you =)
Thought I'd share the following. In a .cpp file, I have the habit of putting a //--------------- line between function implementations to keep the code more orderly. As it turns out, the symbol table only shows the symbol for the first function prior to that comment line. If I remove all the // comments, it will show all symbols. If I change the comment lines to, say: /*------*/, it shows all symbols too.
I haven't looked too deeply into this, and I'm far from an expert here, but from what I've read so far I gather the files are passed to ctags, and I'm guessing the problem lies there /shrug
For me, I think I'll just change my comment lines. Kinda sucks, but it's something I'll do only once, after which it'll be smooth sailing.
Find this kinda nice when used together with a project manager plugin, makes it feel like an IDE.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 am
"good post"
December 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Hi Micah,
Please I need ur help in writing a gedit plugin in C in the form of a tutorial. Or is there any site available for learning how to write a gedit plugin in C [or Python]. I'd really appreciate a reply from you. I'm actually planning to write an auto-completion or "intellisense" gedit plugin. Thanks.
December 15th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I am trying to install symbol browser on RHEL 5.2 and I am having some issues. I compile and install all the dependencies (including gtksourceview). When I open up gedit from the command line, and click the symbol browser box in the plugins menu, the box always stays unchecked and this is written to the terminal:
** (gedit:29810): WARNING **: /opt/gtksourceview/lib/libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gtk_text_buffer_add_mark
** (gedit:29810): WARNING **: Could not load plugin file at /home/gh258/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/libsymbolbrowser.so
** (gedit:29810): WARNING **: Error, impossible to activate plugin 'Symbol Browser'
I have recompiled gtksourceview and reinstalled it with some different options, but nothing works. Do you know what is wrong? Thanks in advance
January 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
@austin:
Get to this page: http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins
There's a lot of already written plugins for Gedit, and in the bottom, there's a section «Howto write plugins» in C and Python.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Hi Micah,
First, thanks a lot for the useful Gedit Symbol Browser Plugin.
I found a bug: if the path to the file (including the file name) contains a space, Symbol Browser Plugin doesn't work and stays empty. Here's the way to always reproduce this bug:
echo "int main (void) {return 0;}" > "example 1.c"
Open "example 1.c" with gedit and see the empty Symbol Browser panel. The main function isn't recognized. However, if we remove the space in the file name:
echo "int main (void) {return 0;}" > example1.c
and we open example1.c with gedit, the Symbol Browser Plugin recognizes this time the main function.
Thanks.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I would like to report another bug:
Crash on opening files containing an apostrophe in the name
Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an empty text file named:
Monter l'iso
2. Click on the file and choose "Open with gedit".
If gedit is already open, it automatically closes, otherwise it doesn't open.
Thanks again.
January 18th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Has there been any progress on this plugin? It sounds like an awesome addition but I cannot get it to build on my Ubuntu 8.10 system.
January 24th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Just wanted to add my thanks and experiences.
As I'm somewhat of a newbie to the install from source thing, getting this to work wasn't smooth sailing. A few pointers that might help others like me:
- although you may have fixed the dependencies before compiling gedit, you might need to fix up the paths right. Compiling Gedit I got missing files for gtksourceview although I had just installed it. Symlinking /usr/local/include/gtksourceview-2.0 to /usr/include/gtksourceview-2.0/ did the trick
- I also had the empty sidebar/nothing displayed trick after opening gedit and getting symbol browser enabled. Fixing the permissions for the symbolbrowser plugin files fixed that.
Thanks for the great work on this, much appreciated :)
Regards
Fake
February 12th, 2009 at 7:39 am
I use Ubuntu 8.10 and gedit 2.24.2. After one hour i could succesfull compile the plugin. But no ".so" file is created, just the ".la" and ".lai". Are these files the same and can i just copy them? WIth this, it should be possible to use Symbol Browser
March 12th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Hi,
When I extract the binary to /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins as suggested in one of the posts above (since ./gnome/gedit doesn't exist), I do see the plugin "symbol browser" in the plugin list under preferences. However, it doesn't get active (it remains like an unclickable button). Does anybody have any idea? I am using Ubuntu 8.10.
Thanks!
Paulo
March 24th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I want to contribute with the build of a binary distribution of symbol browser for Fedora. I already installed it (it was very hardy for me!) in my Fedora system. I don't remember where, but I read to send you the files generated by the instalation. I don't know which files are you looking for, but you can send a message to help me (and help you too).
Sya!
April 5th, 2009 at 2:28 am
@peter and other Drupal developers: to get this browser to show symbols on .module and .install files, run this command: echo '--langmap=php:+.module.install' >> ~/.ctags
More tips here: http://mavimo.org/drupal/autocompletamento_drupal_gedit
April 7th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Thank you so much. Gedit can be tweaked to be a great web development IDE but this takes it up a whole other level. Don't know how I lived with out this.
Also much thanks to the User contributed bins.
April 25th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Can't get this to work under jaunty.
- Downloaded the amd64-bins.
- Activated the plugin.
- The "Symbol Browser" field is empty.
Yes, I do actually run 64bit.
The symbol browser plugin's icon shows up though, but there are no listings.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Will this solution work on ubuntu 9.04 ?
May 8th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Are there any precompiled binaries for ubuntu available for download or is it just the source?
June 10th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Hello Micah,
Really nice plugin! I liked a lot.... It is very usefull...
Just to help you debuging it, I will report a bug, ok:
-Open a .c file in Gedit from a location with spaces on it, for example: "~/code/my test code"
Actual result: Symbol Browser plugin can't work with paths with spaces...
I don't know if you already know about this bug, if so, sorry :)
Congratulations again for the nice plugin!!
Best Regards,
Augusto
June 13th, 2009 at 4:04 am
"Can't get this to work under jaunty."
Me too, but I'm using i386.
Attached a screenshot:
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9624/symbolbrowser.png
June 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Oooops!
Disregard my previous comment. Installed ctags from synaptic and now runs flawesly.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:28 am
Thanks for this plugin. I am currently developing some PHP code where some of the filenames end with ".php.inc" instead of ".php", so they are not recognized by ctags. I do not know much about ctags, so I've tried a different workaround...
I've modified the
static gchar * exec_ctags (gchar *filename)
function in your code, so that it detects the "php.inc" extension and forces the ctags binary to use the PHP language for these files.
While it works perfectly for my case, this is probably not the best way to do it ;-) Is there a better way to add additional file extensions?
July 6th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Thanks!! Great plugin!
I used the previous entry (Jesus, who installed it via Synaptic - ctags) to install the plugin.
Works great for me :-)
July 20th, 2009 at 2:36 am
I have installed ctags but stil not working :(
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Thanks to Micah for the general plugin, and thanks to Greg for the Python version.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Too bad source installation is so hellishly complicated...
November 5th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Thanks a lot for this plugin...
OPEN SOURCE ALWAYS WIN ;)
for all guys who couldn't get this plugin to work
be sure that you have this package "exuberant-ctags"
for debian & *ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags
Good luck
November 20th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
This is very nice!
In my .c and .cpp files the Symbol Browser seems to only show external variabes. It does not seem to show local variables defined inside functions. Is this normal?
Regards,
Bill
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 am
Found a bug. Segfaults when I open Nate Robbin's OpenGL sample file texture.c.
$ gedit ../Nate\ Robbin\'s\ Tutorials/texture.c
** (gedit:15572): CRITICAL **: Could not execute ctags: Text ended before matching quote was found for '. (The text was 'ctags -n --fields=-k-f-s-t+K+l+n -f - /home/kip/Projects/Learn/OpenGL/Nate Robbin's Tutorials/texture.c')
Segmentation fault
December 4th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Figured it out for Ubuntu 9.10
needed to install a package:
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install libgnomeprintui2.2-0
December 8th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Muy bueno el plugin, it's a very good plugin, sorry for my english. I have a recomendation, when turn on the number line option the top level labels (class, functions and members) have the 0 line number, i think its better if this labels dont have this (just nothing).
Thanks man
December 30th, 2009 at 4:54 am
I could compile symbol browser in OpenSUSE. How can I do to make a binary package ?