# Ctags or cscope tool for julia with vim

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctags-or-cscope-tool-for-julia-with-vim/130613>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** vim, ctags, cscope\
**Created:** [July 10, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctags-or-cscope-tool-for-julia-with-vim/130613 "2025-07-10T17:28:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![devel-chm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/devel-chm/32/3572_2.png) [@devel-chm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/devel-chm)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctags-or-cscope-tool-for-julia-with-vim/130613/1 "2025-07-10T17:28:04Z")

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I’m using vim+repl as my IDE.

Is there anything like ctags or cscope julia code support available  
to explore and understand large julia code?

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**Author:** ![devel-chm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/devel-chm/32/3572_2.png) [@devel-chm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/devel-chm)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctags-or-cscope-tool-for-julia-with-vim/130613/2 "2025-07-10T18:25:36Z")

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It turns out that the current version (6.2) of Universal Ctags]([https://ctags.io/](https://ctags.io/))  
has built-in support for Julia. The [documentation page](https://docs.ctags.io/en/latest/man/ctags-lang-julia.7.html) for **ctags-julia** covers  
how to call ctags to generate the **tags** file.