Re: Not all languages enabled in Exuberant Tags

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 00:59:33 (+0900), Shigio YAMAGUCHI wrote:

> I finally understand.
> You probably have something like this set to disable C:
>
> [~/.ctags.d/any.ctags]
> -----------------------------------
> --languages=3D-C
> -----------------------------------

I looked and I found 5 year old file:

[~/.ctags.d/rust.ctags
-----------------------------------
--languages=3DRust
-----------------------------------

Which disabled everything else...

> Right? With the above settings, I was able to reproduce
> your results. It is a bug.

Maybe not a bug, but poor UX.

>
> I agree with you. Since gtags only uses ctags as a parser,
> I think it's easier to use if you ignore the ctags settings
> and prioritize the gtags settings.

Great!

>
> I'd like to wait a week or so to get other people's opinions
> before I make any changes to the code.

Of course. Thank you for looking into this. I want to write a post on
GNU Global but thought about this as a stopper. Now I can proceed :)

Best,
Przemys=C5=82aw Alexander Kami=C5=84ski