[Tutor] ctags (was: How does the interpreter determine how many decimal places to display for a float?)

Cameron Simpson cs at cskk.id.au
Mon May 17 18:34:40 EDT 2021


On 16May2021 19:59, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>On 16/05/2021 17:48, boB Stepp wrote:
>> This is helpful.  However, I tend to (so far) be clumsy in finding a
>> decent starting point.  Since your original reply I have been poking
>> around the cpython source and am getting a better handle on how it is
>> arranged.
>
>If you aren't already be sure to spend 15 minutes learning ctags.
>It makes navigating around C code very much easier since you can
>put your cursor(in vi./vim) on a function name and "goto tag"
>which will take you straight into the correct file at the
>function definition.

I want to point out that ctags works well also for Python! I use it 
extensively.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>


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