Changes in 6.1.0¶
This page lists only the most significant changes as remembered. Use git-log to review changes not enumerated here, especially in language parsers.
New and extended options and their flags¶
--regex-<LANG> option¶
{postrun}and{intervaltab}flags are added. See ctags-optlib(7).
Incompatible changes¶
section kind is deleted from Asm parser.
Merged pull requests¶
Note
This list is imperfect. masatake cleaned up some pull requests before merging. Though his names is used in “… by …”, his is not the primary contributor of the pull requests. See git log for more defatils.
Pull in the latest subtrees by masatake · Pull Request #3902
readtags: add --with-psuedo-tags option by masatake · Pull Request #3901
I18nRubyGem: add a new kind, “locale” by masatake · Pull Request #3899
Ruby: improve the way of parsing Class.new(SuperClass) by masatake · Pull Request #3898
XML Based Resource System (XRC): new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3897
I18nRubyGem: new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3895
docs(man): write about guest parsers by masatake · Pull Request #3892
Revise the release process by masatake · Pull Request #3894
PkgConfig: new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3891
rpmMacros: process areas surrounded by pairs of curly bracket by masatake · Pull Request #3890
Vera: revise the dataflow of cppGetc -> vStringPut by masatake · Pull Request #3886
nestlevel: Fix user data alignment by b4n · Pull Request #3883
Cxx: extract section information from __attribute__((section(“SECTION”))) by masatake · Pull Request #3614
NEWS: merge README.rst and README.md by masatake · Pull Request #3875
builds-sys/test: enhance check-genfile target by masatake · Pull Request #3882
various minor fixes by masatake · Pull Request #3880
GitHub Actions: disable BSD workflows again by masatake · Pull Request #3879
circleci: use fedora39 by masatake · Pull Request #3878
misc/news.bash: generalize the script by masatake · Pull Request #3877
docs(web): manage versions of NEWS by masatake · Pull Request #3872
main: use the interval tree for filling scope field by masatake · Pull Request #3678
V for merging by masatake · Pull Request #3871
YACC: fix a typo in the pattern for skipping C strings by masatake · Pull Request #3869
Revise: the way of accessing the optVm’s appData by masatake · Pull Request #3868
dsl: extend #/../ operator to be able to extract a matched group in the pattern by masatake · Pull Request #3768
Docs: minor fixes by masatake · Pull Request #3867
misc/units.py: fix invalid escape sequences in regex patterns by masatake · Pull Request #3866
build-sys: don’t use libxml-2 if its CRLF handling is broken by masatake · Pull Request #3858
SQL: extract views in “create view if not exists VIEW …” by masatake · Pull Request #3850
JavaScript: handle spread syntax by masatake · Pull Request #3846
GitHub Actions: temporarily disable BSD workflows by leleliu008 · Pull Request #3848
README.md: update the URL for the badge of CircleCI Build Status by masatake · Pull Request #3844
Yaml: revise Ypath API by masatake · Pull Request #3842
docs(web): add .readthedocs.yaml file by masatake · Pull Request #3843
Update kotlin parser by dolik-rce · Pull Request #3841
Various warnings fixes by b4n · Pull Request #3840
main,tlib: fix wording by masatake · Pull Request #3838
ReStructuredText: run guest parsers on code blocks by masatake · Pull Request #3839
README.md: adjust wording of the configure command by rhythm16 · Pull Request #3835
Revert “main,tlib: fix wording” by masatake · Pull Request #3837
M4,Autoconf: allow to run a subparser inside quoted area by masatake · Pull Request #3833
main,tlib: fix wording by masatake · Pull Request #3834
Automake: various updates by masatake · Pull Request #3828
Doc: update docs/windows.rst by leleliu008 · Pull Request #3825
AppVeyor: use Visual Studio 2019 image by leleliu008 · Pull Request #3815
BibTeX: accept “.” and “/” as parts of a bib entry by masatake · Pull Request #3824
BibLaTeX: new subparser based on BibTeX by masatake · Pull Request #3822
using %zu for printing size_t values by leleliu008 · Pull Request #3821
Forth: new parser by farvardin · Pull Request #3812
build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 by dependabot[bot] · Pull Request #3814
GitHub Actions: Create dependabot.yml by k-takata · Pull Request #3813
c-based: fix to handle edge case by jafl · Pull Request #3796
C-based: put markers to signature by masatake · Pull Request #3804
Appveyor: run nmake with defining DEBUG by masatake · Pull Request #3801
main,debug: don’t use __func__ directly by masatake · Pull Request #3800
input-validate: add CATEGORIES make variable by hirooih · Pull Request #3793
Verilog validator by hirooih · Pull Request #3791
update Mac installation instructions by euclio · Pull Request #3790
CircleCI: run validate-input target on Fedora 38 instead of Fedora 30 by masatake · Pull Request #3792
ReStructuredText: skip prefixed whitespaces when parsing markup lines by masatake · Pull Request #3789
main: report the guessed reason if system(“sort”) is failed by masatake · Pull Request #3788
Verilog,unit: lint-check unit tests by hirooih · Pull Request #3787
Verilog: fix for continuous assignment delays by hirooih · Pull Request #3786
RpmSpec: added references by masatake · Pull Request #3784
Protobuf: reduce calling cppGetLastCharOrStringContents by masatake · Pull Request #3783
LdScript: reject “ and ‘ as a part of an identifier by masatake · Pull Request #3782
Cxx: ignore alignas by masatake · Pull Request #3781
main: reserve errno in external sorting by masatake · Pull Request #3779
Tmain: add a case for testing the Perl/Perl6 selector by masatake · Pull Request #3778
MatLab: return appropriate tags for set get methods + unit by portalgun · Pull Request #3773
build-sys: release note for 6.1 by masatake · Pull Request #3774
Ruby: don’t make a scope for “Class.new…” with no block by masatake · Pull Request #3733
Fix typo in asm.c by eltociear · Pull Request #3757
Javascript: multiple prototype assignments by jafl · Pull Request #3770
dsl: use strtol instead of es_read_from_string by masatake · Pull Request #3769
JavaScript: additional fix for get & set, when specified in prototype by jafl · Pull Request #3765
Fix compiler warnings by jafl · Pull Request #3764
JavaScript: treat “get” and “set” as function names… by jafl · Pull Request #3761
JavaScript: allow array index after ‘this’ keyword by jafl · Pull Request #3762
JavaScript: report object fields specified via shortcut syntax by jafl · Pull Request #3763
JavaScript: move unit test from review-needed to parser-javascript by jafl · Pull Request #3760
main: make --version and --help options work even if a broken .ctags is given by masatake · Pull Request #3756
docs(web),cosmetic: update optlib.rst typo removed by artemnovichenko · Pull Request #3753
Markdown: set the parser-version 1.1 by masatake · Pull Request #3752
Misc fix by masatake · Pull Request #3751
Markdown: add hashtags functionality by jiangyinzuo · Pull Request #3747
Markdown: accept sections in the line started from spaces by masatake · Pull Request #3750
Various minor fixes by masatake · Pull Request #3742
LdScript: support SORT keyword by masatake · Pull Request #3743
libreadtags: pull the latest version by masatake · Pull Request #3735
Fix many calls to ctype functions by b4n · Pull Request #3734
vstring: Avoid int -> char truncation warnings by b4n · Pull Request #3690
lregex: optimize substitute() by masatake · Pull Request #3728
Misc fix by masatake · Pull Request #3731
erlang: Fix crash parsing directives longer than 31 characters by b4n · Pull Request #3726
Misc fix by masatake · Pull Request #3724
verilog: treat a text-macro as an identifier by hirooih · Pull Request #3722
readtags: fix a bug compiling a formatter wrongly if giving --formatter long option by masatake · Pull Request #3723
Verilog: support virtual interface variables by hirooih · Pull Request #3720
units.py: don’t use color if NO_COLOR is specified by masatake · Pull Request #3721
Suppress warning by masatake · Pull Request #3714
GDScript : mark xtag bit for implicitClass xtags by masatake · Pull Request #3717
Fortran: fix wrongly specified xtag type by masatake · Pull Request #3718
docs(web): sphinx minor fixes by masatake · Pull Request #3719
D: parse template instance types by ntrel · Pull Request #3716
D: fix parsing parameter with pointer by ntrel · Pull Request #3715
Misc fix by masatake · Pull Request #3713
D: set template members parent name by ntrel · Pull Request #3707
D: remove overload, not a keyword by ntrel · Pull Request #3710
D: parse contract expressions by ntrel · Pull Request #3708
D: parse const(T), immutable, inout and shared type qualifiers by ntrel · Pull Request #3709
readtags: canonicalize the input file name based on CWD ptag by masatake · Pull Request #3304
C-based parsers,style: adjust placements of “{” after if by masatake · Pull Request #3706
D: parse user-defined attributes by ntrel · Pull Request #3701
Circleci: add fedora 38 by masatake · Pull Request #3705
main: add missing const modifiers by masatake · Pull Request #3699
autoit: Drop $ from variable names by techee · Pull Request #3697
C++: accept prototypes starting from :: operator by masatake · Pull Request #3694
main: revise bit fields in tagEntryInfo by masatake · Pull Request #3695
Misc fix by masatake · Pull Request #3691
AutoIt: Slightly optimize parsing #region by b4n · Pull Request #3689
main,refactor: delete ‘inCorkQueue’ parameter from attachParserField() by masatake · Pull Request #3687
Optscript: add _foreignreftag operator by masatake · Pull Request #3686
Misc fix by masatake · Pull Request #3685
Terraform: new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3684
main: Don’t strdup the inputFileName when storing a tag to the corkQueue by masatake · Pull Request #3682
Misc fix by masatake · Pull Request #3681
Quarto: new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3677
Misc fix by masatake · Pull Request #3679
Ruby: skip if __DATA__ is found by masatake · Pull Request #3676
SQL: handle “DATABASE” and “SCHEMA” keywords specially only when they come after “CREATE” by masatake · Pull Request #3674
docs(web): add ctags-lang-kconfig.7.rst by masatake · Pull Request #3673
SQL: Skip PL/SQL selection directives and add sanity check for inquiry directive size by techee · Pull Request #3654
misc/review: add “accept” command to the Tmain inspector by masatake · Pull Request #3672
Fortran: add “linkName” extra by masatake · Pull Request #3671
Cxx: scan the cork queue instead of the symtab to fill nth fields by masatake · Pull Request #3642
main: add quick path for looking up too long strings in the keyword table by techee · Pull Request #3664
main,cosmetic: fix misspelling by jafl · Pull Request #3667
Powershell: fix string escape issue by iaalm · Pull Request #3661
Verilog: all text macro map to new kindDefinition:define by my2817 · Pull Request #3653
Fix typo in conditional in C++ parser by al42and · Pull Request #3646
Tcl: don’t include ‘”’ char as a part of identifiers by masatake · Pull Request #3639
GitHubActions: fix testing-openbsd.yml automake version broken issue by leleliu008 · Pull Request #3640
Ruby: handle curly bracket by masatake · Pull Request #3633
Kconfig: support the macro language by masatake · Pull Request #3632
Ldscript: improve tagging versions in VERSION commands by masatake · Pull Request #3631
CPreProcessor: don’t include the newline after a backslash in string or char literals by masatake · Pull Request #3629
C,Asm,LdScript: minor fixes by masatake · Pull Request #3623
Markdown: fix the condition to detect code blocks by masatake · Pull Request #3626
C++,ObjectiveC,C,main: fix the broken selector for .h by masatake · Pull Request #3622
Cxx: support typeof and __typeof__ keywords of the gcc extension by masatake · Pull Request #3621
Various preparations by masatake · Pull Request #3617
readtags: unescape input field (a.k.a {tagfile}) only if TAG_OUTPUT_MODE is u-ctags and TAG_OUTPUT_FILESEP is slash by masatake · Pull Request #3599
main: introduce --_paramdef-<LANG>=<NAME>,<DESCRIPTION> option by masatake · Pull Request #3613
Perl: skip string literals when collecting heredoc markers by masatake · Pull Request #3592
Org: optimize by masatake · Pull Request #3611
GitHub Actions: fix testing-mac.yml Homebrew upgrade python@3.10 and python@3.11 failed problem by leleliu008 · Pull Request #3610
Systemtap: add new role “attached” for “probe” kind , and run CPreProcessor as a guest parser by masatake · Pull Request #3607
C++,C: record consteval, constinit, thread_local, and __thread to properties: field by masatake · Pull Request #3602
HTML: introduce a specialized tokenizer for script areas by masatake · Pull Request #3598
Issues close or partially closed via above pull requests¶
YAML: extract keys (with scope) for I18n Ruby Gem · Issue #3523
docs(man): write about using multiple parsers for single input file · Issue #3888
Write about kind collisions to ctags-faq(7) · Issue #3007
create annotation tags instead of lightweight tag · Issue #3767
CPreProcessor: Assertion ‘c >= 0 && c <= 0xff’ failed · Issue #3771
Convert NEWS.md to NEWS.rst · Issue #3874
[Question] Defining new regex-based tags with scope defined by built-in ctags kinds · Issue #3637
Warning reported when running make units · Issue #3865
Wording · Issue #3830
BibTeX: “.” in label · Issue #3823
Bibtex - include types defined on biblatex package · Issue #3802
AIX compiling from source is failing · Issue #3807
LdScript: using cppGetc() in wrong ways · Issue #3449
Cxx: the way of handling alignas · Issue #3780
main: ctags option processing fails if “Language already defined”, including ctags --help · Issue #2935
Markdown: tagging a chapter unexpectedly · Issue #3748
units.py: support NO_COLOR (https://no-color.org/) · Issue #3688
Request: filename related functions in readtags expressions · Issue #3168
C++: fully qualified return type breaks parsing prototypes · Issue #3693
SQL: Warning: ignoring null tag in … /src/test/regress/sql/collate.icu.utf8.sql(line: 412) · Issue #3636
Fortran: Improve handling of case insensitivity · Issue #3668
C/C++: Endless parse large file · Issue #3634
Tcl parser - Ctags can not generating tags for some proc · Issue #3638
Markdown: comments within shell code of markdown files are recognized as chapters · Issue #3625
C: support typeof gcc extension · Issue #3620
main: use escape sequences when printing pseudo tags as explained in tags(5) · Issue #3577
readtags: improper handling of escape sequences in input field · Issue #3559
Perl: Incorrectly sees << inside a string as start of a heredoc · Issue #3588
C++: Output information on constexpr and consteval functions · Issue #3539
html: apostrophe in JavaScript comment breaks guest parser · Issue #3581
HTML: HTML comment starter in JavaScript area · Issue #3597
html: apostrophe in JavaScript comment breaks guest parser · Issue #3581
HTML: HTML comment starter in JavaScript area · Issue #3597