Peter Odding wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I first noticed the following issue a long time ago when I was still using
> Vim 7.2 but I just found that it still applies to Vim 7.3c:
>
> When Vim expands the 'tags' option it also considers the 'suffixesadd'
> option. Because I have ":set suffixesadd=.vim" in my ~/.vimrc (so that :find
> automatically adds the extension ".vim" which seems like a valid use case to
> me?) the following then happens to me from time to time:
>
> $ vim -u NONE -U NONE --noplugin -N --cmd 'cd $VIMRUNTIME/syntax | set
> sua=.vim | echo tagfiles() | echo taglist(".")' --cmd quit
> ['tags.vim']
> Error detected while processing pre-vimrc command line:
> E431: Format error in tags file "tags.vim"
> Before byte 95
> []
>
> I don't know whether Vim expands the 'tags' option using the same internal
> code that drives glob(). If that is the case then simply passing flag=1
> (internally) should fix the issue.
>
> Unless this is all intentional, in which case it seems appropriate IMHO to
> mention this behavior near :help 'tags' or :help 'suffixesadd'.
Hi Peter
This issue was discussed recently (a month ago) and there is already
an item for it in ":help todo.txt":
Bug: searching for tags file uses 'suffixesadd', should not happen. (Dominique
Pelle, 2010 June 28)
Regards
-- Dominique
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