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   dbubud
   Member

   Hi,

   concerning the fact that ctags isn't able to evaluate multiline posix regex's, would'nt it be possible to pass temporarily 'preprocessed' source code to it, such as

   Line# - Content
   1 - 1 & 2
   2 - 2 & 3
   3 - 3 & 4
   ...

   and then apply the results to the displayed script?
   And possibly beforehand replace all stream-/block comments with spaces, thus avoiding complications with tags found in the midst of those.

   I'd also appreciate to see found tags displayed below files in the project strip, and so to have a 'true' project panel.

   Can't more than one project groups be shown on that panel, as well?

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   dbubud
   Member

   Simon,

   in addition,
   when I write a supplementary ctags.exe to do the things above, changing the scripts you pass to ctags.exe, and call a renamed one afterwards with the same parameters except exchanging the filename with my tempfilename, pnotepad hangs and I have to kill it's process.
   Does it wait for the appearance of the file 'tags' or do you catch stdout?

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   simon
   PN Developer

   Project-wide tag support is definitely something I want to do at some point, there have been lots of requests for it. Showing the tags aligned with your project browser selection could be a nice UI feature too.

   As for pre-processing the results some alternative version of ctags is one way to do this, providing a custom tagger (c++ plugin) is the other.

   PN doesn't read a tags file, it reads the stdout from ctags. You can see the code here:

   http://code.google.com/p/pnotepad/source/browse/trunk/pnwtl/taggers/ctagsnavigator/ctagsnavigator.cpp#176

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   dbubud
   Member

   As a quick solution, I intend to replace ctags.exe, which you are calling, and, instead of patching it, pass manipulated sources to a renamed copy of it. As long as the tag's positions in the results match with the ones in the original sources, there should'nt be any problems occuring with pnotepad, right?
   Thank you for the hint, I am going to try to pass the results to stdout.

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. 

   simon
   PN Developer

   Should be fine!

   Posted 2 years ago #

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