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 p6.1.20250504.0
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 1.17 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 3,145
universal-ctags --HEAD 217
Installs on Request (30 days)
universal-ctags 2,605
universal-ctags --HEAD 213
Build Errors (30 days)
universal-ctags --HEAD 30
Installs (90 days)
universal-ctags 8,581
universal-ctags --HEAD 665
Installs on Request (90 days)
universal-ctags 7,105
universal-ctags --HEAD 651
Installs (365 days)
universal-ctags 35,239
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,783
Installs on Request (365 days)
universal-ctags 28,497
universal-ctags --HEAD 2,751
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