You can’t! I looked through the source code (thanks to apt-get source). There are no checks for lines to ignore. The relevant code is in parseFileOptions() in options.c But sometimes comments are a neccessity, so as a workaround I put a comment in as a regexp, in such as way that it is unlikely to … Read more
You can add the following line to your ~/.ctags file. –python-kinds=-i to have ctags skip indexing import statements. To see what else you can enable/disable: ctags –list-kinds=python
Similar to this and this, the problem is you’re not running Exuberant Ctags, you’re running GNU Emacs etags, which also provides a ctags executable. Run ctags –version and you’ll see something like this: ctags (GNU Emacs 23.1) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is distributed under the terms in ETAGS.README And if … Read more
Install Homebrew, then do: brew install ctags
The –exclude option does not expect a list of files. According to ctags‘s man page, “This option may be specified as many times as desired.” So, it’s like this: ctags -R –exclude=.git –exclude=node_modules –exclude=test
Use g] instead of C-] to get the list of all matches. You might want to read :help g]