ctags support

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Problem to solve

When reviewing code, it will be nice to be able to click through to the definition of methods

Intended users

Developers

Further details

Proposal

There are many ways to achieve this, but one way would be to implement support for parsing ctags

Permissions and Security

There may be arbitrary code execution implications depending on how Turing complete ctags are.

Documentation

Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Projects can have users click on a method name, and GitLab will direct to the line where the method is defined.

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Edited Aug 28, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖
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