On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 3:45:22 PM UTC-4, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Do, 13 Jul 2017, Robert wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to help someone that posted in the /r/vim Reddit forum. They 
> >> are trying to get "tag_any_white" compiled in.
> >>
> >> He has tried the following:
> >>
> >> configure:15432: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-tag_any_white
> >> configure:15432: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-tag_any_white
> >>
> >> Neither worked...
> >
> > I already wondered why the OP at reddit wanted to enable all those
> > features, even if they do not make sense like ebcdic. It seems one can
> > only enable tag_any_white by editing feature.h. Is there any tag program, 
> > that
> > needs that?
> >
> > ,----[ feature.h ]
> > |   /*
> > |    * +tag_any_white       Allow any white space to separate the fields in 
> > a tags
> > |    *                      file.  When not defined, only a TAB is allowed.
> > |    */
> > |   /* #define FEAT_TAG_ANYWHITE */
> > `----
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Christian
> > --
> > Heute ist die Utopie vom Vormittag die Wirklichkeit vom Nachmittag.
> >                 -- Truman Capote
> >
> 
> Ebcdic should indeed only be enabled by configure, if it finds out
> that you are on an ebcdic machine.
> 
> There are indeed some features which AFAIK can only be enabled or
> disabled by editing feature.h. That's how I'm running with +xterm_save
> but -tag_old_static. If you (Robert) really want +tag_any_white you
> can uncomment a line somewhere after line 350 of feature.h, but as
> Christian implied, the tags files generated by Vim's :helptags
> command, or (IIUC) by the Exuberant Ctags program, don't need that
> feature.
> 
> Beware that if you do this you will have what Mercurial calls two
> unnamed parallel changeset chains (unnamed branches?) within the
> default branch, which you will have to merge (e.g. by using hg fetch
> instead of hg pull -u) every time you get new patches from Bram's
> repository. I'm not sure how it works if you use a git clone.
> 
> Best regads,
> Tony.

Thanks Tony. It wasn't for me I as asking but trying to find an answer for 
another person (See Christians post). I appreciate both yours and Christians 
time in answering.

Bob

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