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Exuberant Ctags Changelog

What's new in Exuberant Ctags 5.7

Mar 16, 2009
  • Added support for DIM AS [Freebasic, Bug #1741778].
  • Added support for arbitrary nesting depth [Python, Bug #1684786, Debian bug #409078].
  • Added support for verbatim string literals [C#, Bug #1515910].
  • Added support for .ctags as well as ctags.cnf on Windows [Bug #1246506].
  • Added support for non-extern, non-static functions returning wchar_t, contributed by Aaron Peromsik [C++, Patch #1458930].
  • Added support for numerous revision control systems including Bazaar and Mercurial [Bug #1472894].
  • Added support for enums [Java, Bug #1730485, Bug #1517143, Patch #1027395, Patch #1528507].
  • Added support for multiple-level namespace declarations [C#].
  • Added .svn to list of directories ignored during recursion (--recurse).
  • Added support for BlitzBasic, PureBasic and FreeBasic [FR #1100506].
  • Added support for interfaces and static/public/protected/private functions [PHP].
  • Added support for 'package' keyword [Perl].
  • Added support for multi-line subroutine, package, and constant definitions [Perl].
  • Added support for optional subroutine declarations [Perl].
  • Added support for formats [Perl].
  • Added support for new convert keyword [Eiffel].
  • Added optional tags for forward variable declarations (e.g. 'struct C;') [C, C++].
  • Changed parsing of option input file (-L) to strip trailing white space.
  • Ignore comments mixed into definitions and declarations [Perl].
  • Fixed detecting labels with whitespace after label name [Perl, Bug #1752361]
  • Fixed parsing of generic classes/interfaces [Java, Bug #1447756].
  • Fixed misidentification of fully qualified function calls as labels [Perl].
  • Fixed parsing of inner classes [Python, Bug #1411963].
  • Fixed line continuation [Python, Bug #928001, Patch #819471].
  • Fixed parsing of annotations [Java, Bug #1691412].
  • Fixed block-comment parsing [Verilog, Patch #1458042, Bugs #960316, #1111214, #1606569, #1615060].
  • Fixed typo in man page [Debian bug #366412].
  • Fixed missing chunk of text in man page and over-use of hyphens in UTF-8 locales [Debian bug #271323].
  • Fixed parsing of ` as a method name [Ruby].
  • Fixed parsing of keywords in string literals [Ruby, Bug #1742588].
  • Fixed potential segmentation violation [Bug #1672834, Bug #1222926].
  • Fixed parsing of destructors with whitespace after the '~' [C++, Bug #1585745].
  • Fixed default access of unions to be public [C++, Bug #1548443].
  • Fixed various memory leaks, mostly contributed by Dmitry Antipov.
  • Fixed parsing of `define [Verilog, Bug #961001].
  • Fixed crashes involving '/' [Verilog, Bug #1743330].
  • Fixed compilation problem on MinGW [Bug #1517424].
  • Fixed generation of HTML-formatted man page [Bug #1645864].
  • Fixed recognition of Python scripts having '#!/usr/bin/python' as first line [Bug #1764148].
  • Fixed parsing of Fortran comment-to-end-of-line with no newline before EOF [Debian bug #432872].
  • Fixed parsing of