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ctags / tags integration for listing the outline

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the referenced ctags file format and Vim tags workflow, then inspect how the editor-support binary can retrieve module data. Define the tag output and outline coverage before implementing it. Done means vanilla Vim can use the generated ctags-compatible data to list and navigate ReScript outlines.

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Description

A common VIM workflow is to create tags file (often via ctags). There is no ReScript / ctags language extension, but maybe this is not even needed.

In a first version it would be perfectly fine to comply to the ctags file format and use the editor-support binary to retrieve the data for our modules.

When rescript-vscode supports outlines, it would also be possible to use that functionality to list outlines via coc-vim of course. I want to have a vanilla vim version first though.

Also check out how to use tags / how to create tag files in vim.

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