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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Using ctags with Sys V vi?
Message-ID: <507@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 03:38:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: kuling.507
Posted: Thu Oct  8 03:38:19 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 03:12:58 EDT
References: <1559@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Keywords: vi,ctags,sysV
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In article <1559@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>Has anyone used the (mostly undocumented) ctags feature with the System V
>version of vi? After constructing a tags file with a PD version of ctags,
Yes, I have tried it. We are HP freaks and have only HP-UX (SysV.2).  It
works there.
>System V vi often issues the error message 'no such tag in tags file' (or
>something like this) when I try to position the current line on a function
>(which may be in another source file) with ':ta fname'. Sometimes it
>finds the line/file (it seems to depend on the order of the tag definitions),
>...
Yes, the ordering is important.   The tags must be sorted alphabetically or
you will get your error message.

Bo Thide', Swedish Institute of Space Physics.  UUCP: ...enea!kuling!irfu!bt