Incomplete tag generation

[matthewmturner]

Im getting very hit or miss results with the generated tags in my project.

for example i have these imports but the only one that works where i can go to the tag is arrow_schema::DataType. When i check the tag file most of the imports from datafusion arent there so its not really suprising that they dont work (for example the word Volatility isnt in the file at all). Am i misunderstanding how tags work?

[dan-t]

Hi Matthew,

how are the symbols of datafusion defined/exported? There‘re cases that ctags doesn‘t understand, like exports from internal modules.

Greetings, Daniel

[matthewmturner]

Hi Daniel - thanks for the response. I wasnt aware that ctags doesnt understand exports from internal modules - i believe thats what they are. Do you know of any work arounds?

[dan-t]

Hi Matthew,

if the internal modules aren’t located in the source directory of the package, then ctags can‘t find the symbol definitions. That are the limits of a regex based tagger and only a language aware tagger could solve the problem.

Greetings, Daniel