Re: [Ctags] Can't use .ctags file

[Darren H. <dhi...@us...>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Saar Machtinger wrote:

> Just installed the new 5.5 ver.
> I have created the ~/.ctags file with:
> --append=yes
> -f  ~saarma/bin/vim61/ctags-5.5/tags

First of all, it is not valid to use shell contructs that require
shell expansion, because the contents of this file are never passed
through the shell. The pathname "~saarma/..." is such a construct.
The '~' character is expanded by the shell when encountered on a
shell command line before it gets to ctags. Thus, ctags would report
an error with this path if it was able to procede beyond the error
below.

> But when trying to run ctags, I get the error:
> ctags: No files specified. Try "ctags --help".

What command line are you using to run ctags? It appears that you
have not supplied a list of one or more files for ctags to process.

P.S.:  You can verify ctags initialization (including the reading of
the ~/.ctags file) by suppling -V as the first argument on the
command line.

-- 
Darren Hiebert
http://DarrenHiebert.com
http://ctags.sourceforge.net