Does ctags support zip or jar file?

Question

Does the ctags support zip or jar file?
I want to use ctags in vim to program java.
So I hope ctags search java file in jar.

I do not want to unzip jar, that will hard to manage file.

Answer 1

In the tags database which ctags builds, it has to refer to the indexed file, relative to the tags database. Since there is no general notation to refer to contents inside a ZIP file (what may be casually described as /path/to/archive.zip:dirs/inside/file.txt), as this is a separate filesystem within the normal filesystem, this is not possible. You have to unzip the JAR files.