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    <h1><a href="http://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar">Tagbar</a></h1>
    <h2>The Vim class outline viewer</h2>

    <div class="description">
        Vim plugin that displays tags in a window, ordered by class etc.
    </div>

    <p>
        Tagbar is a vim plugin for browsing the tags of source code files. It
        provides a sidebar that displays the ctags-generated tags of the
        current file, ordered by their scope. This means that for example
        methods in C++ are displayed under the class they are defined in.
    </p>

    <h2>Dependencies</h2>
    <p><a href="http://www.vim.org/">Vim 7.0</a><br/>
    <a href="http://ctags.sourceforge.net/">Exuberant ctags 5.5</a></p>

    <h2>Install</h2>
    <p>
        Extract the archive or clone the repository into a directory in your
        'runtimepath' or use
        <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2332">pathogen</a>.
        Don't forget to run :helptags if you don't use pathogen.
    </p>

    <p>
        Note: Vim versions &lt; 7.0.167 have a bug that prevents Tagbar from
        working. If you are affected by this use this alternate Tagbar
        download instead:
        <a href="https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar/zipball/70fix">zip</a>.
        It is on par with version 2.2 but probably won't be updated after
        that.
    </p>

    <p>
        If the ctags executable is not installed in one of the directories in
        your $PATH environment variable you have to set the
        g:tagbar_ctags_bin variable, see the documentation for more info.
    </p>

    <h2>Quickstart</h2>
    <p>
        Put something like the following into your ~/.vimrc:

{% highlight vim %}
nmap <F8> :TagbarToggle<CR>
{% endhighlight %}

        Then the F8 key will toggle the Tagbar window. You can of course use
        any shortcut you want. For more flexible ways to open and close the
        window (and the rest of the functionality) see the documentation.
    </p>

    <h2>Support for additional filetypes</h2>

    <p>
        The
        <a href="https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar/wiki">wiki</a>
        describes how to get better support for JavaScript with jsctags and
        extensions for additional filetypes that are not supported by
        Exuberant Ctags by default. If you create your own extension please
        add it to the wiki!
    </p>

    <h2>Screenshots</h2>
    <a href="tagbar1.png"><img src="tagbar1_t.png"/></a>
    <a href="tagbar2.png"><img src="tagbar2_t.png"/></a>
    <a href="tagbar3.png"><img src="tagbar3_t.png"/></a>

    <h2>License</h2>
    <p>Vim license</p>

    <h2>Author</h2>
    <p>Jan Larres &lt;<a href="mailto:jan@majutsushi.net">jan@majutsushi.net</a>&gt;</p>

    <h2>Download</h2>
    <h3>Latest stable release</h3>

    {% for post in site.posts limit:1 %}

    <span style="font-weight:bold">{{ post.title }}</span> ({{ post.date | date:"%Y-%m-%d" }})
    <a href="http://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar/zipball/v{{ post.title }}">zip</a>
    <a href="http://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar/tarball/v{{ post.title }}">tar</a>

        {{ post.content }}

    {% endfor %}

    <a href="archive">Old releases</a>

    <h3>Latest development version</h3>
    <p>
        Download as:
        <a href="http://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar/zipball/master">zip</a>
        <a href="http://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar/tarball/master">tar</a>
    </p>
    <p>
        You can also clone the project with <a href="http://git-scm.com">Git</a>
        by running:

        <pre>$ git clone git://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar</pre>
    </p>

    <div class="footer">
        get the source code on GitHub : <a href="http://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar">majutsushi/tagbar</a>
    </div>

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