Alan Thompson wrote on 2012-12-11: > Upon closer inspection, it appears that Cygwin has a different version > of ctags (not Exuberant Ctags!) that does not support recursion at > all! Specifically, > >> ctags -V > ctags (standalone 21.4.22) > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program is distributed under the terms in ETAGS.README >> >> ctags --help > Usage: ctags [options] [[regex-option ...] file-name] ... > > These are the options accepted by ctags. > You may use unambiguous abbreviations for the long option names. > A - as file name means read names from stdin (one per line). > Absolute names are stored in the output file as they are. Relative ones > are stored relative to the output file's directory. <snip> -R, --no-regex > Don't create tags from regexps for the following files. > <snip>
Are you sure you're using the ctags you think you are? $ ctags --help Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert Compiled: Dec 11 2009, 11:42:40 Addresses: <dhieb...@users.sourceforge.net>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex, +internal-sort Usage: ctags [options] [file(s)] <snip> -R Equivalent to --recurse. <snip> Hope this helps! -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
