universal-ctags has the objective of continuing the development from what existed in the Sourceforge area. Github exuberant-ctags repository was started by Reza Jelveh and was later moved to the universal-ctags organization. The goal of the project is preparing and maintaining common/unified working space where people interested in making ctags better can work together. Note that the resulting package will overwrite Exuberant Ctags included in Slackware's vim package: /usr/bin/ctags /usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz (only if rst2man command is available) In case you remove this package, you'll need to reinstall vim.