Jan Larres wrote: > I recently started poking around in the Mozilla codebase and so generated a > tags file for it using exuberant-ctags. But when I tried to access tags in Vim > I always got the following message: > > E431: Format error in tags file "tags" > Before byte 5118 > E426: tag not found: test > > I turned out that the offending tag had an unusually long name (638 > characters, to be exact). Otherwise the format of the line seems to be > correct. > > I have attached the tag file and the file that generated it, produced with the > following command line: > > ctags --sort=yes --fields=+iaS html5_tree_construction_exceptions.js > > The offending tag is on line 32 of the tags file. > This is with Vim 7.3.
Vim supports tag lines up to 512 characters. If you want you can recompile Vim and define LSIZE in src/vim.h to a larger number. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 201. When somebody asks you where you are, you tell them in which chat room. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
