diff --git a/src/building/suggested.md b/src/building/suggested.md index ac8127a4..e544a68b 100644 --- a/src/building/suggested.md +++ b/src/building/suggested.md @@ -71,33 +71,6 @@ Task] instead: [Build Task]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks -## Configuring `ctags` - -One of the challenges with rustc is that the RLS can't handle it, since it's a -bootstrapping compiler. This makes code navigation difficult. One solution is to -use `ctags`. - -`ctags` has a long history and several variants. Exuberant Ctags seems to be -quite commonly distributed but it does not have out-of-box Rust support. Some -distributions seem to use [Universal Ctags][utags], which is a maintained fork -and does have built-in Rust support. - -The following script can be used to set up Exuberant Ctags: -[https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rust-etags][etags]. - -`ctags` integrates into emacs and vim quite easily. The following can then be -used to build and generate tags: - -```console -$ rust-ctags src/lib* && ./x.py build -``` - -This allows you to do "jump-to-def" with whatever functions were around when -you last built, which is ridiculously useful. - -[etags]: https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rust-etags -[utags]: https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags - ## Check, check, and check again When doing simple refactorings, it can be useful to run `./x.py check`