Re: [vile] Tags not working, how to diagnose?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Chris G wrote:

> I can't get tags to work with vile or xvile on my Fedora 7 system at
> home.  A very similar set-up works fine at work.

"work" iirc is using Solaris.  Fedora is using exhuberant ctags, which
does have some extensions.  When those were proposed ~ years ago, we
modified vile to work with them.  It's possible that Fedora's adding
some quirk (or it could be locale-related).  But for the given message,
that's "only" doing a scan of the "tags" mode (space-separated pathnames).

> I have run ctags and it has created a tags file that looks OK to me
> but when I try 'CTRL-]' I get the error:-
>
>    [No tags file available.]

Reading the code in tags.c, it seems that vile's not finding the
tags filename and/or able to load it into a buffer.  There's no
useful information I can think of here that doesn't require a
debugging setup (configuring/compiling vile using the --with-trace
option would give some useful information in Trace.out).

> Vim works fine in the same directory with the same tags file.

Is this "any" tags file, or just a specific one?


> So how can I work out what's wrong?
>
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