How to update c++ tags automatically in Atom

Question

I am trying to use atom editor for my opengl project. I used ctags to generate indexes for my local project, but I was looking for something that can automatically update indexes while I am coding. In case, if there isn't any plug-in for atom to automatically updates indexes, Is there a way to load all the ctags for all my libraries globally? so that I can have autocompletion when I type std:: without having a local copy of my all tags in my project

Answer 1

You can use symbol-gen package to generate ctags symbols file for your project (based on the .ctags option file).

You can install it from Atom Package Manager by: apm install symbol-gen .

Also make sure that symbols-view package is enabled by: apm enable symbols-view .

Then hit CMD - Alt - G (on macOS) to generate tags file for your project.