Commit: runtime(doc): update example ctags program and links

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runtime(doc): update example ctags program and links

Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/83cb8174c8fef6e27b2c9e810296edfba37a4b4d
Author: Phạm Bình An <phambinh...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu May 1 17:40:15 2025 +0200

runtime(doc): update example ctags program and links

- :helptags is also a tags generating program, it deserves mentioning
- JTags seems too dead: its website has been sold, the source, binary
can't be found anywhere.
- update link of ptags

closes: #17233

Signed-off-by: Phạm Bình An <111893501+...@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>

diff --git a/runtime/doc/tags b/runtime/doc/tags
index 2e6c8e08b..bb0558dab 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/tags
+++ b/runtime/doc/tags
@@ -8602,7 +8602,6 @@ jsbterm-mouse options.txt /*jsbterm-mouse*
json.vim syntax.txt /*json.vim*
json_decode() builtin.txt /*json_decode()*
json_encode() builtin.txt /*json_encode()*
-jtags tagsrch.txt /*jtags*
jump-motions motion.txt /*jump-motions*
jumplist motion.txt /*jumplist*
jumplist-stack motion.txt /*jumplist-stack*
diff --git a/runtime/doc/tagsrch.txt b/runtime/doc/tagsrch.txt
index e6bfe1785..0717f2ffd 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/tagsrch.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/tagsrch.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*tagsrch.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2025 Apr 30
+*tagsrch.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2025 May 01


VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ directory where the tag file is.
==============================================================================
5. Tags file format *tags-file-format* *E431*

- *ctags* *jtags*
+ *ctags*
A tags file can be created with an external command, for example "ctags". It
will contain a tag for each function. Some versions of "ctags" will also make
a tag for each "#defined" macro, typedefs, enums, etc.
@@ -542,13 +542,11 @@ exuberant ctags This is a very good one. It works for C, C++, Java,
many items. See http://ctags.sourceforge.net.
No new version since 2009.
etags Connected to Emacs. Supports many languages.
-JTags For Java, in Java. It can be found at
- http://www.fleiner.com/jtags/.
+|:helptags| For Vim's |help| files
ptags.py For Python, in Python. Found in your Python source
directory at Tools/scripts/ptags.py.
-ptags For Perl, in Perl. It can be found at (link seems
- dead):
- http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/nthiery/Tags/.
+ptags For Perl, in Perl. It can be found at
+ https://metacpan.org/pod/Vim::Tag
gnatxref For Ada. See http://www.gnuada.org/. gnatxref is
part of the gnat package.

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