Sunday, March 25, 2012

Update ctags with brew

Update ctags with brew

The "ctags" coming with Mac OS is really a very old one (1993). We can update it with brew, and I think this Article is very useful.

The point is:

  • Install latest ctags with brew: brew install ctags. This should be OK
  • Replace "ctags" with:
    1. alias ctags="`brew --prefix`/bin/ctags"
    2. alias ctags >> ~/.bash_profile
    3. Please note that the original post uses ~/.bashrc but it won't work in Mac OS. So use ~/.bash_profile instead

`brew --prefix` will display the install path of brew, and append it with /bin/ctags will get the new ctags pathname. Please note that "`" is the character with the key "~" on your keyboard.

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