Bug#859426: vim: Vim 8 cannot handle 'etags' format any more

[James McCoy]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 02:17:11PM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote:
> When the file "tags" (or also "TAGS") was created with the 'etags' command, e.g.
> 
>    $ etags file.c

Which etags is this?  There are various packages that provide the etags
name.  “update-alternatives --query etags” will tell you.

Local experimentation would lead me to believe it's the one provided by
exuberant-ctags, which generates a different format file than emacs'
etags does.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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