Note

I no longer use Helm, and the code in this repository hasn't been changed for several years.

Etags helm.el interface

The easiest way to get started is to install the package via MELPA:

(package-install 'helm-etags-plus)

it support multiple tag files.

(setq tags-table-list '("/path/of/TAGS1"    "/path/of/TAG2"))

if there is a TAG in the root of project you needn't add this special file to 'tags-table-list'

 (require 'helm-etags-plus)
 (global-set-key "\M-." 'helm-etags-plus-select)

M-. default use symbol under point as tagname C-uM-. use pattern you typed as tagname

Go back and forward

;;list all visited tags
(global-set-key "\M-*" 'helm-etags-plus-history)
;;go back directly
(global-set-key "\M-," 'helm-etags-plus-history-go-back)
;;go forward directly
(global-set-key "\M-/" 'helm-etags-plus-history-go-forward)

if you want to use bm.el for navigating history,you could

    (setq bm-in-lifo-order t)

    (autoload 'bm-bookmark-add "bm" "add bookmark")
    
    (add-hook 'helm-etags-plus-before-jump-hook 'bm-bookmark-add)
    ;;or
    (add-hook 'helm-etags-plus-before-jump-hook '(lambda()(bm-bookmark-add nil nil t)))
    ;Auto remove bookmark after jump to it by bm-next or bm-previous

then use bm-previous bm-next to jump

Integration with etags-table.el

(require 'etags-table)
(setq etags-table-alist
        (list
        '("/home/me/Projects/foo/.*\\.[ch]$" "/home/me/Projects/lib1/TAGS" "/home/me/Projects/lib2/TAGS")
        '("/home/me/Projects/bar/.*\\.py$" "/home/me/Projects/python/common/TAGS")
        '("/tmp/.*\\.c$"  "/java/tags/linux.tag" "/tmp/TAGS" )
        '(".*\\.java$"  "/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.22/src/TAGS" )
        '(".*\\.[ch]$"  "/java/tags/linux.ctags")
        ))
(add-hook 'helm-etags-plus-select-hook 'etags-table-recompute)

ctags-update.el

moved to https://github.com/jixiuf/ctags-update