ctags for Scala

January 12, 2022 - Reading time: ~1 minute

I looked around for help on creating an options file for ctags to work with Scala code. Keeping it here for easy access.

Options file

--langdef=scala
--langmap=scala:.scala
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy)[ \t]*)*(private[^ ]*|protected)?[ \t]*class[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\4/c,classes/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy)[ \t]*)*(private[^ ]*|protected)?[ \t]*object[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\4/c,objects/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy)[ \t]*)*(private[^ ]*|protected)?[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy)[ \t]*)*case class[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\6/c,case classes/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy)[ \t]*)*(private[^ ]*|protected)?[ \t]*case object[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\4/c,case objects/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy)[ \t]*)*(private[^ ]*|protected)?[ \t]*trait[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\4/t,traits/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*type[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\1/T,types/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy|private[^ ]*(\[[a-z]*\])*|protected)[ \t]*)*def[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\4/m,methods/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy|private[^ ]*|protected)[ \t]*)*val[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\3/l,constants/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*((abstract|final|sealed|implicit|lazy|private[^ ]*|protected)[ \t]*)*var[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/\3/l,variables/
--regex-scala=/^[ \t]*package[ \t]+([a-zA-Z0-9_.]+)/\1/p,packages/

Using the file

Use the file by passing it to ctags

Example

ctags --options=ctags_scala --exclude=target --exclude=java-ipv6-master --exclude=tests --exclude=testdata --exclude=Session.vim -R .