Does universal-ctags support exuberant-ctags config files?

Question

I've got a $HOME/.ctags file from exuberant-tags, but universal-tags doesn't seem to be picking up my options from it. Does universal-tags support these config files?

Kevakevan

Answer 1

See this documentation for details. The quick answer is:

mkdir $HOME/.ctags.d
mv $HOME/.ctags $HOME/.ctags.d/default.ctags

As an added bonus, you can now add comments to the file.

Kevakevan

love uctags but this bit really wasn't worth changing! – Nonoccurrence

Answer 2

Apparently the file must have a name. at least in windows. so .ctags will never work. As soon as I renamed my file to defaults.ctags the executable started reading it, if you enter bad syntax in the ctags file you will see errors output on the command line.

Waken