On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:11:13 +0900 (JST)
Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> > By the way, after executing both make_etags and make_ctags, trying tag jump
> > in my vim causes the following error even though there are correct tags files.
> >
> > E431: Format error in tags file "backend/access/heap/TAGS"
> >
> > Removing all TAGS files as below can resolve this error.
> > $ find . -name TAGS | xargs rm
> >
> > So, should we have one more option of make_{ce}tags script to clean up
> > existing tags/TAGS files?
>
> Not sure. Before the commit make_ctags did not do such a thing but we
> never heard any complain like yours. Also I believe vi/vim users never
> invoke make_etags (same thing can be said to emacs users). So why
> should we bother?
Indeed, it was my first use of make_etags (or make_ctags -e) and it was
just for testing the patch. Similarly, someone who runs mistakenly this
command might want this option. However, as you say, there've been no
complain about this, so I don't feel it necessary so much. Maybe, users
of this command would be able to remove tags by their selves easily.
Regards,
Yugo Nagata
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Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>