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I have created a ctags file using the exuberant ctags utility for my source tree. How do I configure the taglist plugin to use this tags file?

April 26, 2017configure ctags exuberant file plugin source taglist tree utility

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I have created a ctags file using the exuberant ctags utility for my source tree. How do I configure the taglist plugin to use this tags file?

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The taglist plugin doesn’t use the tags file generated by exuberant ctags. For every opened file, the taglist plugin invokes the exuberant ctags utility to get the list of tags. • When I set the ‘updatetime’ option to a low value (less than 1000) and if I keep pressing a key with the taglist window open, the current buffer contents are changed. Why is this? The taglist plugin uses the ‘CursorHold’ autocmd to highlight the current tag. The CursorHold autocmd triggers for every ‘updatetime’ milliseconds. If the ‘updatetime’ option is set to a low value, then the CursorHold autocmd will be triggered frequently. As the taglist plugin changes the focus to the taglist window to highlight the current tag, this could interfere with the key movement resulting in changing the contents of the current buffer. The workaround for this problem is to not set the ‘updatetime’ option to a low value.