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What does the warning on --append
about "not sorted" mean? Does append actually work?
#67
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Reading the exuberant ctags manual it looks like tags being sorted was a legacy requirement of the format, and From vim manual
It's not clear whether vim observes I'm also not sure what e.g. So:
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I'm looking into this and #68 over the weekend, so I'll see if I can make some sense of this. I've never even used |
Yeah I'm sort of giving up on this. I'm mostly interested in this in order to use gutentags, but they actually delete tag files from a file that changes before doing |
Cool. I won't burn too many cycles on matching weird |
Actually now that I'm testing, vim doesn't seem to find tags that are just appended (and out of alphabetical order), again this is with gutentags so maybe that's causing some of the issue. It seems to have erased the meta line about sorting, although I'm not sure why that would make a difference. Cutting and pasting to re-alphabetize the tags file manually caused jumping to work. |
I don't know anything about the internals of ctags format. Why should I care that the tags file is no longer sorted? And if it is necessary that it be sorted then
--append
needs to be fixed, right?So this is either a documentation or implementation bug report.
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