Subject: bin/176: "vi -t" doesn't work
To: None <gnats-admin>
From: None <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/22/1994 20:35:01
>Number: 176
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: "vi -t" doesn't work
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: gnats-admin (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 22 20:35:01 1994
>Originator: Chuck Cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>
>Organization:
useless grad student at Washington University, St. Louis MO
>Release:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD netbsd 0.9a CCRC#8 sparc
-current supped on Mar 21
>Description:
Use "ctags" to make a tags file. Then try to use "vi -t".
It doesn't work.
>How-To-Repeat:
Script started on Tue Mar 22 22:19:20 1994
netbsd> cat x.c
xxx() {
}
netbsd> ctags x.c
netbsd> cat tags
xxx x.c /^xxx() {$/
netbsd> vi -t xxx
Error: tags: Invalid argument.
xxx: tag not found.
Error: /var/db/libc.tags: No such file or directory.
Error: /sys/kern/tags: No such file or directory.
netbsd> exit
Script done on Tue Mar 22 22:20:06 1994
>Fix:
I don't have time to look at the code, so I don't have a fix
(other than editing on a non-netbsd system, or using emacs).
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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