Taglist: Exuberant ctags not found in PATH

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This morning, I started getting that message when I attempt to open a file in Vim. Vim is my editor of choice for config files, git commit messages and the like, but is not my day to day code editor. I clearly did something to invite this message, but I have no idea what. I did recently uninstall an older version of XCode from /Developer-3.2.6, but that's the only thing that comes to mind that seems even tangentially related.

I'm running OSX Lion. Is Excuberant ctags part of the base install? I know I didn't install it intentionally, but if it's not native, then maybe it came along with something else? Any ideas about how to either get the plugin back or remove references to it so I don't get the warning message?

Thanks.

Adrenocorticotropic answered 17/9, 2011 at 12:39 Comment(4)

On my machine, it's in /Developer/usr/bin/ – Frangos 17/9, 2011 at 12:42

@Paul Tomblin: Are you running XCode 3.x or 4? – Adrenocorticotropic 17/9, 2011 at 12:45

It's an old one. 3.x, I think. – Frangos 17/9, 2011 at 15:18

just add /Developer/usr/bin to your path as Paul suggested and you should be good. No need to reinstall xcode – Lively 6/10, 2011 at 17:29

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That looks a lot like the message the taglist plugin emits when it can't find a ctags program. If you run :scriptnames, do you see plugin/taglist.vim in the list of sourced files? If you do, then you'll probably want to remove that and doc/taglist.txt under the same directory structure.

Crespo answered 17/9, 2011 at 12:49 Comment(4)

I do see that plugin in the list, I'm just not sure where it went, I guess. Reinstalling XCode seems to have fixed whatever the problem may have been. – Adrenocorticotropic 17/9, 2011 at 17:35

@Rob, I told you what the problem was. :) The taglist plugin couldn't find a ctags program. You reinstalled XCode, which provided a ctags program, so taglist stopped complaining. – Crespo 17/9, 2011 at 17:56

Fair enough. Someone might as well get the points in spite of my rather unenlightened and ham-fisted solution. :-) – Adrenocorticotropic 17/9, 2011 at 18:13

rm ~/.vim/plugin/taglist.vim ~/.vim/doc/taglist.txt – Atomizer 21/12, 2020 at 17:27

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For Ubuntu and derivatives:

sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags

With yum:

sudo yum install ctags-etags

Tournament answered 19/7, 2013 at 2:36 Comment(2)

You should clarify that this is intended only for Ubuntu and its derivatives. – Cynth 20/10, 2013 at 19:31

It worked for me, thank you. The error msg reveals that exuberant-ctags program not installed, so, just install it and the problem resolved. – Hindustan 20/8, 2018 at 0:6

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FWIW I had the same error message on Ubuntu, I simply installed ctags and everything hunky dory. Thanks :)

Chibcha answered 13/10, 2011 at 8:53 Comment(0)

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That looks a lot like the message the taglist plugin emits when it can't find a ctags program. If you run :scriptnames, do you see plugin/taglist.vim in the list of sourced files? If you do, then you'll probably want to remove that and doc/taglist.txt under the same directory structure.

Crespo answered 17/9, 2011 at 12:49 Comment(4)

I do see that plugin in the list, I'm just not sure where it went, I guess. Reinstalling XCode seems to have fixed whatever the problem may have been. – Adrenocorticotropic 17/9, 2011 at 17:35

@Rob, I told you what the problem was. :) The taglist plugin couldn't find a ctags program. You reinstalled XCode, which provided a ctags program, so taglist stopped complaining. – Crespo 17/9, 2011 at 17:56

Fair enough. Someone might as well get the points in spite of my rather unenlightened and ham-fisted solution. :-) – Adrenocorticotropic 17/9, 2011 at 18:13

rm ~/.vim/plugin/taglist.vim ~/.vim/doc/taglist.txt – Atomizer 21/12, 2020 at 17:27

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If you are using Gvim in a Windows system, you should download a ctag Windows program (that is ctag.exe) and put the ctag.exe in the vim74 file dir, then reboot Gvim, and it will find it and use it! I hope this is helpful.

Take a look at this: http://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/installation.html

Sherard answered 26/2, 2014 at 9:10 Comment(2)

i put that ctags.exe every where except in my "C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim74". Thanks for the tip. Now C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim74\ctags.exe let Tlist open and do the job ;) – Maziar 6/9, 2015 at 13:5

So, you probably shouldn't put this in your vim install folder, because if you uninstall vim, it won't get removed. Instead, put it somewhere else, then in Windows, update your user PATH environment variable to add the folder path to where ctags.exe is located. If you have an existing terminal session open, you will need to restart it. But then Vim will find the executable with no problem. – Arnie 8/9, 2021 at 15:56

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Thanks, guys. I ended up reinstalling XCode and it looks like the problem has gone away. I have no idea how I got it into whatever state it was in, but it's back now and everything looks to be back to normal.

Adrenocorticotropic answered 17/9, 2011 at 17:35 Comment(0)

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I encountered the same issue after upgrading to Mountain Lion. I fixed it by reinstalling the CLI tools from XCode preferences > Downloads. I had the CLI tools installed before upgrading. Not sure what happened, but it works now.

Candelariacandelario answered 29/11, 2012 at 20:59 Comment(0)

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I encountered this issue on a host, but I didn't have permission to install any packages.

But i did find out the gctags was present on that system.

I created a softlink for the gctags binary in a location that was included in my PATH environment variable.

$ln -s /usr/bin/gctags ~/bin/ctags**

You can do the same if you find etags binary in your system, and have no way to install any packages.

Jordans answered 31/7, 2019 at 6:11 Comment(0)

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