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+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.
+
+Check out the homepage at http://majutsushi.github.com/tagbar/ for more
+information.