universal-ctags

Install command:
brew install universal-ctags

Maintained ctags implementation

https://ctags.io/

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Development: Pull requests

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
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 6.2.1
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

jansson 2.15.1 C library for encoding, decoding, and manipulating JSON
libyaml 0.2.5 YAML Parser
pcre2 10.49 Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API

Depends on when building from source:

docutils 0.23 Text processing system for reStructuredText
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.14 3.14.8 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Uses from macOS: libxml2

Conflicts with: ctags (because both install `ctags` binaries)

Binaries: ctags, optscript, readtags

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