Whole line completion using tags file

Hi,

I'd like to use Ctrl+X Ctrl+L to autocomplete whole lines that are in
tag files. C+X C+L works for completing lines in the same buffer, Ctrl
+N works for completing keywords in tag files, and Ctrl+] works for
completing single tags, but I can't get C+X C+L to complete lines that
are in tag files.

The help for 'complete' says:

This option specifies how keyword completion |ins-completion|
works
when CTRL-P or CTRL-N are used. It is also used for whole-
line
completion |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-L|. It indicates the type of
completion
and the places to scan. It is a comma separated list of
flags:
. scan the current buffer ('wrapscan' is ignored)
[...]
] tag completion
t same as "]

So it seems like what I want should be possible. The default value of
'complete' is ".,w,b,u,t,i" and so includes 't'. And unless I'm more
than slightly crazy I believe C+X C+L has been doing whole line
completion from tag files for me for years and only recently stopped
working.

I've tried lots of combinations under my normal user account and fresh
user accounts, and no luck. Vim 7.2 on Debian Squeeze and Vim 7.1.314
on Debian Lenny. I'm using ctags-exuberant to generate the tag file,
and have tried different options with that too. The files being
tagged are PHP, and I'm not using PHP omni completion. I tried
creating small tag files from just one subdirectory of code, same
result. The tag files themselves look ok, and are working for Ctrl+N
and Ctrl+].

:set tags=/home/user/tags
:echo tagfiles()
['/home/user/tags']
:set complete=.,w,b,u,t,i (also tried just 't', and putting 't' in
the first or second position)

Any ideas?

--
Leandro

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