TagBar/ctags; ctrl-] not working.

[kevinwaddle]

On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have ctags-exuberant installed.

In an open file pressing ctrl-] on anything always produces "E433: No tags file"

The spf13 documentation says that tag files will be created automatically by TagBar on open files and that ctrl-] should work. What am I missing?

[spf13]

You need to install the ctags program.

Steve Francia http://stevefrancia.com http://spf13.com http://twitter.com/spf13

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:24 PM, kevinwaddle notifications@github.comwrote:

On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have ctags-exuberant installed.

In an open file pressing ctrl-] on anything always produces "E433: No tags file"

The spf13 documentation says that tag files will be created automatically by TagBar on open files and that ctrl-] should work. What am I missing?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim/issues/301.

[kevinwaddle]

ctags is installed. I can run it from the command line.

[kevinwaddle]

TagBar invokes ctags in a way that prevents it from a creating an actual tagfile. So ctrl-] cannot work using TagBar alone.

[jchoi2x]

So tagbar (or spf13) doesn't automatically generate ctags file for you also? I've tried getting the 'automatic tag file generation' to work with OS X and Linux and they've both failed on me; ctrl+] always says no tags file despite having exuberant-ctags installed

I have to manually create tag files and put it in the ctags path set tags=./tags;/,~/.vimtags but that kind of defeats the purpose of using TagBar for me and I rather not have it slowing vim down

[rekendahl]

I have the same issue. Would be nice to fix it to auto generate tags file!

[bronzehedwick]

+1

[bronzehedwick]

This doesn't solve the issue in spf13, but I found tpope's post about setting up automatic tag generation through git hooks very helpful. http://tbaggery.com/2011/08/08/effortless-ctags-with-git.html

[wehlutyk]

+1 to this, I have the exact same issue.

[tswr]

+1 =(

[donglixp]

+1 to this issue

[yograf]

+1 :(

[ghost]

+1

[JinqiangZeng]

+1 ):

[petroslamb]

For me this is one of the few serious advantages of pycharm. +1

[lastjune]

+1 the same issue

[aftnix]

:+1:

[jimafisk]

For some reason tagbar wasn't downloaded with spf13 on ubuntu 14, so I did it manually: git clone git://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar ~/.vim/bundle/tagbar Then just run ,tt to open. Doesn't really fix the ctrl-] issue but I was getting the same "No tags file" error.

[yarbroughw]

+1

[bmeynell]

Same issue here.

[bmeynell]

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. Seems at least two others here are also on Ubuntu as indicated by https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim/issues/301#issue-11209044 and https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim/issues/301#issuecomment-178959381. Perhaps this is an Ubuntu-only issue?

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

[bmeynell]

I think I have this working now. Previously I was getting (from my project directory root):

$ ctags -R *
ctags-exuberant: cannot open tag file : No such file or directory

To avoid this error I had to:

sudo su
ctags -R *

Then tags file was then generated (yay!).

To better fine-tune, what you want ctags to store, you need to create a .ctags file, also in the project root. Here's a quick example --> https://gist.github.com/chrisyue/6374262

Once you do that, re-create the ctags file.

You can then open up vim and use Ctrl+] as expected.