Question

I’d like to use Vim for editing sources and Xcode for all other purposes like managing, debugging etc. I’ve installed cocoa.vim plugin and it helps with highlighting, but I still need a way to navigate around the code. In java project I used ctags for the purpose, but it doesn’t support obj-c.

So the question is: what is the easiest way to generate vi-compatible tags file for Objective-C sources?

Answer 1

I’m the author of the second link that jelera pointed to and must say it is now out of date.

I would follow the advice in the accepted answer of Alternatives to Ctags/Cscope with Objective-c? in order to get full Obj-C parser support in ctags.

If you use tagbar, this post will help get the new ctags binary working with it:

http://bastibe.de/2011-12-04-how-to-make-tagbar-work-with-objective-c.html

This is pretty much the setup I now use.