Re: E431

Open the tags file itself and see if it kinda ok. Maybe there is a malformed line. Tags files are text files with every line showing a search pattern and file location. Just verify if the tagfile if ok.

On Sun, May 3, 2020, 4:19 AM Steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> wrote:

Hi there,

Trying to lean how to use tags.

So downloaded a project and

cd projet/
ctags -R .
vim file.php
:set tags=absolute path to tags file
position cursor on a function
Ctrl-]

which triggers the error

E431 format error in tags file tags
before byte 62

A search on the Internet shows a lot of pages but none that helped me.

I'm using Debian 10.3
ctags --version
Exuberant Ctags 5.9~svn20110310, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
  Addresses: <dhiebert@users.sourceforge.net>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
  Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex

vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compilé Apr 22 2020 13:35:06)
Rustines incluses : 1-616

Thanks for any help.

Have a nice Sunday
Steve

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