[vile] vile does not understand certain entries in "tags" files generated by `ctags'.

[j. van den hoff]

I have a "tags" file of function definitions in the `R' language  
(https://www.r-project.org). function names can contain periods, so I have  
lines such as

disp.array      fzrutils/R/disp.array.R /^disp.array <- function ($/;"  f

in the "tags" file. my `.vilerc' contains

set tags {path_to_the_tags_file}
set tagrelative

`vi -t disp.array' does not work as expected but reacts the same way it  
does when a non-existent tag is specified (just reporting the read-in  
config files: "Reading ~/vile.rc" etc.). tags not containing a `.'  in the  
function name work just fine. `vim -t disp.array' does the expected even  
if the `.' is present in the name.

Am I missing something or is this a bug?

seen with vile version 9.8o for darwin14.3.0.

thank you

joerg

PS: I also presume, there is a small `ctags' bug here. the search pattern  
probably should backslash-protect the period in order to actually only  
match `disp.array' verbatim rather than
disp{any-single-character}array, no? otherwise one might jump to the wrong  
tag/file/position.

--
Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/