Hervé Cauwelier wrote: > Here are the steps to reproduce the problem: > - cd into the directory that contains itws, etc. > - open gvim in that directory > - open about any file, say itws/addresses.py > - click on "Unicode" on line 21 > - click on the "Jump to tag under the cursor" icon > - I get the following error: > > E431: Format error in tags file "itws/tags.py"
Here is a simpler problem (I tried this with Vim 7.3): - directory project contains file tags - directory project/subdir contains files one.py, tags.py In directory project: - gvim subdir/one.py - put cursor on a keyword and press Ctrl-] Result: Vim gives error: E431: Format error in tags file "subdir\tags.py" Entering command ':set tags?' shows the default: tags=./tags,tags The ./tags setting causes Vim to look in the directory of the current file (project/subdir) for a file called tags. However, Vim uses file tags.py because tags is not present! If Vim failed to find a ./tags file, it would use the second setting (tags) which would use project/tags (the current directory) and that would work. A workaround for Hervé would be to fiddle with the 'tags' setting. If nothing better comes to mind, enter the full path of the tags file: :set tags=/full/path/tags It seems weird that Vim would use file tags.py as a tags file. An extremely quick experiment suggest this problem does not occur if tags.py is renamed as tags.c so it seems to be something peculiar about tags.py? John -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
