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v6.1.0 (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Many compatible changes are added to parsers. See "Merged pull requests" section.

Highlight of changes in readtags command

  • Enhancement: add -A, --absolute-input and -C, --canonicalize-input options. See readtags(1) for more details.
  • Bugfix: make --formater options works.

New parsers

  • Quarto: new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3677
    • Quarto by asshah4 · Pull Request #3643
  • Terraform: new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3684
    • Terraform (HCL) (*.tf): new parser by Haggus · Pull Request #3683
    • Terraform (HCL) (*.tf): new parser by antonysouthworth-halter · Pull Request #2952

Changes about parser specific kinds, roles, fields, and extras

  • AutoIt
    • Drop $ from tags for variables names.
  • Fortran
    • New extra linkName.
  • Kconfig
    • New kind variable
  • Markdown
    • New kind hashtag
  • SystemTap
    • New role attached for probe kind
  • SystemVerilog
    • New kind define

Merged pull requests

This list is imperfect. masatake cleaned up some pull requests before merging. Though his names is used in "... by ...", his is not the primary contributor of the pull requests. See git log for more defatils.

  • readtags: canonicalize the input file name based on CWD ptag by masatake · Pull Request #3304
  • Perl: skip string literals when collecting heredoc markers by masatake · Pull Request #3592
  • HTML: introduce a specialized tokenizer for script areas by masatake · Pull Request #3598
  • readtags: unescape input field (a.k.a {tagfile}) only if TAG_OUTPUT_MODE is u-ctags and TAG_OUTPUT_FILESEP is slash by masatake · Pull Request #3599
  • C++,C: record consteval, constinit, thread_local, and __thread to properties: field by masatake · Pull Request #3602
  • Systemtap: add new role "attached" for "probe" kind , and run CPreProcessor as a guest parser by masatake · Pull Request #3607
  • GitHub Actions: fix testing-mac.yml Homebrew upgrade [email protected] and [email protected] failed problem by leleliu008 · Pull Request #3610
  • Org: optimize by masatake · Pull Request #3611
  • main: introduce --_paramdef-=, option by masatake · Pull Request #3613
  • Various preparations by masatake · Pull Request #3617
  • Cxx: support typeof and typeof keywords of the gcc extension by masatake · Pull Request #3621
  • C++,ObjectiveC,C,main: fix the broken selector for .h by masatake · Pull Request #3622
  • C,Asm,LdScript: minor fixes by masatake · Pull Request #3623
  • Markdown: fix the condition to detect code blocks by masatake · Pull Request #3626
  • CPreProcessor: don't include the newline after a backslash in string or char literals by masatake · Pull Request #3629
  • Ldscript: improve tagging versions in VERSION commands by masatake · Pull Request #3631
  • Kconfig: support the macro language by masatake · Pull Request #3632
  • Ruby: handle curly bracket by masatake · Pull Request #3633
  • Tcl: don't include '"' char as a part of identifiers by masatake · Pull Request #3639
  • GitHubActions: fix testing-openbsd.yml automake version broken issue by leleliu008 · Pull Request #3640
  • Cxx: scan the cork queue instead of the symtab to fill nth fields by masatake · Pull Request #3642
  • Fix typo in conditional in C++ parser by al42and · Pull Request #3646
  • Verilog: all text macro map to new kindDefinition:define by my2817 · Pull Request #3653
  • SQL: Skip PL/SQL selection directives and add sanity check for inquiry directive size by techee · Pull Request #3654
  • Powershell: fix string escape issue by iaalm · Pull Request #3661
  • main: add quick path for looking up too long strings in the keyword table by techee · Pull Request #3664
  • main,cosmetic: fix misspelling by jafl · Pull Request #3667
  • Fortran: add "linkName" extra by masatake · Pull Request #3671
  • misc/review: add "accept" command to the Tmain inspector by masatake · Pull Request #3672
  • docs(web): add ctags-lang-kconfig.7.rst by masatake · Pull Request #3673
  • SQL: handle "DATABASE" and "SCHEMA" keywords specially only when they come after "CREATE" by masatake · Pull Request #3674
  • Ruby: skip if DATA is found by masatake · Pull Request #3676
  • Quarto: new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3677
  • main: Don't strdup the inputFileName when storing a tag to the corkQueue by masatake · Pull Request #3682
  • Terraform: new parser by masatake · Pull Request #3684
  • Optscript: add _foreignreftag operator by masatake · Pull Request #3686
  • main,refactor: delete 'inCorkQueue' parameter from attachParserField() by masatake · Pull Request #3687
  • AutoIt: Slightly optimize parsing #region by b4n · Pull Request #3689
  • vstring: Avoid int -> char truncation warnings by b4n · Pull Request #3690
  • C++: accept prototypes starting from :: operator by masatake · Pull Request #3694
  • main: revise bit fields in tagEntryInfo by masatake · Pull Request #3695
  • autoit: Drop $ from variable names by techee · Pull Request #3697
  • main: add missing const modifiers by masatake · Pull Request #3699
  • D: parse user-defined attributes by ntrel · Pull Request #3701
  • Circleci: add fedora 38 by masatake · Pull Request #3705
  • C-based parsers,style: adjust placements of "{" after if by masatake · Pull Request #3706
  • D: set template members parent name by ntrel · Pull Request #3707
  • D: parse contract expressions by ntrel · Pull Request #3708
  • D: parse const(T), immutable, inout and shared type qualifiers by ntrel · Pull Request #3709
  • D: remove overload, not a keyword by ntrel · Pull Request #3710
  • Suppress warning by masatake · Pull Request #3714
  • D: fix parsing parameter with pointer by ntrel · Pull Request #3715
  • D: parse template instance types by ntrel · Pull Request #3716
  • GDScript : mark xtag bit for implicitClass xtags by masatake · Pull Request #3717
  • Fortran: fix wrongly specified xtag type by masatake · Pull Request #3718
  • docs(web): sphinx minor fixes by masatake · Pull Request #3719
  • Verilog: support virtual interface variables by hirooih · Pull Request #3720
  • units.py: don't use color if NO_COLOR is specified by masatake · Pull Request #3721
  • verilog: treat a text-macro as an identifier by hirooih · Pull Request #3722
  • readtags: fix a bug compiling a formatter wrongly if giving --formater long option by masatake · Pull Request #3723
  • erlang: Fix crash parsing directives longer than 31 characters by b4n · Pull Request #3726
  • lregex: optimize substitute() by masatake · Pull Request #3728
  • Ruby: don't make a scope for "Class.new..." with no block by masatake · Pull Request #3733
  • Fix many calls to ctype functions by b4n · Pull Request #3734
  • libreadtags: pull the latest version by masatake · Pull Request #3735
  • LdScript: support SORT keyword by masatake · Pull Request #3743
  • Markdown: add hashtags functionality by jiangyinzuo · Pull Request #3747
  • Markdown: accept sections in the line started from spaces by masatake · Pull Request #3750
  • Markdown: set the parser-version 1.1 by masatake · Pull Request #3752
  • docs(web),cosmetic: update optlib.rst typo removed by artemnovichenko · Pull Request #3753
  • main: make --verison and --help options work even if a broken .ctags is given by masatake · Pull Request #3756
  • Fix typo in asm.c by eltociear · Pull Request #3757
  • JavaScript: move unit test from review-needed to parser-javascript by jafl · Pull Request #3760
  • JavaScript: treat "get" and "set" as function names… by jafl · Pull Request #3761
  • JavaScript: allow array index after 'this' keyword by jafl · Pull Request #3762
  • JavaScript: report object fields specified via shortcut syntax by jafl · Pull Request #3763
  • Fix compiler warnings by jafl · Pull Request #3764
  • JavaScript: additional fix for get & set, when specified in prototype by jafl · Pull Request #3765
  • dsl: use strtol instead of es_read_from_string by masatake · Pull Request #3769
  • Javascript: multiple prototype assignments by jafl · Pull Request #3770

Issues close or partially closed via above pull requests

  • main: ctags option processing fails if "Language already defined", including ctags --help · Issue #2935
  • Markdown: tagging a chapter unexpectedly · Issue #3748
  • units.py: support NO_COLOR (https://no-color.org/) · Issue #3688
  • C++: fully qualified return type breaks parsing prototypes · Issue #3693
  • SQL: Warning: ignoring null tag in ... /src/test/regress/sql/collate.icu.utf8.sql(line: 412) · Issue #3636
  • Fortran: Improve handling of case insensitivity · Issue #3668
  • C/C++: Endless parse large file · Issue #3634
  • Tcl parser - Ctags can not generating tags for some proc · Issue #3638
  • Markdown: comments within shell code of markdown fiiles are recognized as chapters · Issue #3625
  • C: support typeof gcc extention · Issue #3620
  • main: use escape sequences when printing pseudo tags as explainged in tags(5) · Issue #3577
  • readtags: improper handling of escape sequences in input field · Issue #3559
  • Perl: Incorrectly sees << inside a string as start of a heredoc · Issue #3588
  • C++: Output information on constexpr and consteval functions · Issue #3539
  • html: apostrophe in JavaScript comment breaks guest parser · Issue #3581
  • HTML: HTML comment starter in JavaScript area · Issue #3597
  • html: apostrophe in JavaScript comment breaks guest parser · Issue #3581
  • HTML: HTML comment starter in JavaScript area · Issue #3597