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HowTo

Install Homebrew, The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)

1	/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Install Global, Homebrew Global
1
brew install global

Source Tour with Global

$ cd source/directory
$ gtags -v
$ htags -sanohITvt 'Welcome to XXX source tour!'
$ htags --suggest2
$ htags-server -b 127.0.0.1 8000
# for update
$ gtags -vu

Start Multi htags servers

#!/bin/bash

PORT=9000
PDIR=`pwd`
cd $PDIR

for FILE in *; do
  if [ -d $FILE ]; then
    cd $FILE

    htags-server -b 127.0.0.1 $PORT >& /dev/null &
    echo "$FILE htags server's port $PORT"
    PORT=$(($PORT+1))

    cd ..
  fi
done

while [ True ]; do
   echo "htags server is running, wait exit..."
   sleep 60
done

References

GNU Global source code tagging system
GNU Global Tutorial