universal-ctags

Install command:
brew install universal-ctags

Maintained ctags implementation

https://ctags.io/

License: GPL-2.0-only

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/universal-ctags.json

Formula code: universal-ctags.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
sequoia
sonoma
ventura
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
ventura
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable p6.1.20250525.0
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

jansson 2.14.1 C library for encoding, decoding, and manipulating JSON
libyaml 0.2.5 YAML Parser
pcre2 10.45 Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf 2.72 Automatic configure script builder
automake 1.18 Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
docutils 0.21.2 Text processing system for reStructuredText
pkgconf 2.4.3 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.13 3.13.3 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Conflicts with: ctags

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
universal-ctags 3,310
universal-ctags --HEAD 292
Installs on Request (30 days)
universal-ctags 2,805
universal-ctags --HEAD 286
Build Errors (30 days)
universal-ctags --HEAD 24
Installs (90 days)
universal-ctags 9,211
universal-ctags --HEAD 758
Installs on Request (90 days)
universal-ctags 7,686
universal-ctags --HEAD 742
Installs (365 days)
universal-ctags 35,307
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,827
Installs on Request (365 days)
universal-ctags 28,694
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,796
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