ctags VS coc.nvim

Compare ctags vs coc.nvim and see what are their differences.

coc.nvim

Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers. (by neoclide)
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ctags coc.nvim
33 320
6,292 23,945
1.9% 0.7%
9.7 9.0
8 days ago 2 days ago
C TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ctags

Posts with mentions or reviews of ctags. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-04.
  • If you owned a nvidia tesla a100, what would you do with it?
    2 projects | /r/LocalLLaMA | 4 Jul 2023
  • NeoVim & Rust
    7 projects | /r/rust | 26 May 2023
    I also recommend you https://github.com/preservim/tagbar with https://ctags.io/ installed , it will map definitions (functions, enum, struct etc..) to tags and tagbar plugin allows you to open a split window with the mapped list and navigate through your file, it also enabled more advanced features for quick navigation .
  • How do you figure out which #include a function/variable came from?
    2 projects | /r/C_Programming | 3 May 2023
    grep, Ctags, Cscope, LSP
  • Vim plugin like vscode "go to definition" function
    4 projects | /r/vim | 13 Mar 2023
    Vim has the tag feature built-in, which allows it to jump to the tags that were found by a tool like universal ctags using :h CTRL-]. See :help tags for more information on this. Fun fact: this is the approach that Vim uses when you use :help!
  • Neovim config from scratch (Part II)
    10 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023
    Requirements: You need to have a CTags implementation like universal-ctags installed on your system (on every system where you use vim).
  • How to check the memory usage of my plugins?
    1 project | /r/neovim | 11 Jan 2023
    Install https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags
  • Project reading tools
    4 projects | /r/golang | 8 Dec 2022
    If you are heavy Vim user, you do not need anything else. For just quick browsing, simply use ctags, make sure to use universal ctags (https://ctags.io) not exuberant ctags which are no longer well maintained. Go works out of box.
  • Help me set up vim for linting and a file tree please and some other stuff
    7 projects | /r/vim | 7 Oct 2022
    Other (built-in) tools for file navigation in Vim include: :h :ls and :h :buffer to navigate in your buffer list (i.e. the files you have loaded); everything listed in [https://vimways.org/2018/death-by-a-thousand-files/](romainl's "Death by a Thousand Files" articles in vimways); using tags by installing universal-ctags to generate the tags then using any of the commands in :h tag to navigate them; setting global marks to files you use often with m[UPPERCASE LETTER] and jumping to them with `[UPPERCASE LETTER]; :h :vimgrep…
  • Ctags and referencing static functions, is it possible?
    1 project | /r/C_Programming | 22 Sep 2022
    I have good news for you. Universal Ctags, an Exuberant Ctags fork and essentially its replacement, has fixed this already:
  • Searching files or words using fuzzy finders
    1 project | /r/vim | 19 Jul 2022
    Vim has built-in functionality that works pretty similar to what you want. If you have a tags file (for example, using universal ctags), you can hit Ctrl-] (:h Ctrl-]) to jump to the declaration of any function under your cursor. Or, if you don't have a tags file, you can use gd (:h gd) to jump to a local declaration within the open file.

coc.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of coc.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
  • I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own (it wasn't easy)
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
    As well as its own plugins Vim/NeoVim can use VSCode's LSPs, DAPs and extensions either directly or via plugins like CoC[1] and Mason[2].

    I would be surprised if emacs couldn't do the same.

    1. https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

  • Existing non-lua plugins examples
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Dec 2023
    The most famous TypeScript one probably is coc.nvim
  • ready to use neovim for web development (frontend) - beginners
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2023
    It is flatly the wrong mindset to think of vim as an IDE. vim is a code editor: get in, make change, get out. Consider vim koans, which are a fun little read. You can throw coc.nvim at Neovim, along with a few other bits to give you a Good Enough setup, but vim isn't and will never be an IDE.
  • Using CoC inlay hints
    1 project | /r/vim | 11 Nov 2023
    I just did a fresh reinstall of CoC, on a newer version of Neovim. I'm now seeing something I hadn't seen before, which CoC calls "inlay hints". They look like this:
  • C# lsp configuration with neovim CoC
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 10 Nov 2023
    I'm currently on an old setup (using coc and polyglot) and nvim v0.6.1. I'll be updating to a more modern setup within next year, using the native lsp and building nvim more frequently. But that's not today.
  • Does anyone know some good altermatives for these Vim plugins on Emacs?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Jul 2023
    coc.nvim
  • LazyVim
    32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2023
    There are some plugins which have the best documentations I have ever seen, but you need to read it from the Vim.

    Example of coc.nvim: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/blob/master/doc/coc.txt

  • Resources on learning bash scripting
    5 projects | /r/bash | 4 Jul 2023
    Actually you can with coc.nvim & coc-sh. So long as shellcheck is also installed and in PATH, it'll integrate with coc/vim just fine.
  • how to set up coc.nvim extension on offline machine?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 7 Jun 2023
    When you install an extension it runs an npm install or yarn, iirc, which is going to be problematic for you being offline. I was going to say you could copy that ~/.config/coc folder directly to the other machine but yeah, Windows, no idea. You see here https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/wiki/Using-coc-extensions
  • GCC autocompletion
    2 projects | /r/vim | 30 May 2023
    You can try https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim, the pre-requisite is to install nodeJS, then to install all the languages LSP. This works for me for Angular, Rust, JavaScript, Vimscript, etc

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ctags and coc.nvim you can also consider the following projects:

lsp-mode - Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim

vscode-intelephense - PHP intellisense for Visual Studio Code

vim-lsp - async language server protocol plugin for vim and neovim

lsp - Language Server Protocol (LSP) plugin for Vim9

nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

nvim-cmp - A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.

vim-gutentags - A Vim plugin that manages your tag files

fzf.vim - fzf :heart: vim

LunarVim - 🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.