> From: "FallingFromBed ." <fallingfrom...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:47:10 +0530 > > I am facing an issue when creating a ctag DB using the ctags.exe file-- found > in Emacs package. > > From git-bash, I ran the below command > > "$~/Downloads/emacs-26.3-x86_64/bin/ctags.exe -R *" > > Tag file gets created, but it skips the source code present inside the > directories, after running the above > command I've been getting > > bin: Permission denied > contrib: Permission denied > crypto: Permission denied > doc: Permission denied > etc: Permission denied > games: Permission denied > gnu: Permission denied > include: Permission denied > initrd: Permission denied > lib: Permission denied > libexec: Permission denied > nrelease: Permission denied > sbin: Permission denied
You are invoking 'ctags' incorrectly: it needs a list of file names to open and scan. You used the wildcard "*" which matches all the files, including the directories, and 'ctags' on Windows cannot open and scan directories, only files. What you probably want is this instead: $ find . -name '*.[chm]' -o -name '*.el' | ~/Downloads/emacs-26.3-x86_64/bin/ctags - (This assumes you have a GNU 'find' command reachable from the git-bash where you run this.)
