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When I try to open the taglist window, I am seeing the following error message. How do I fix this problem?

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When I try to open the taglist window, I am seeing the following error message. How do I fix this problem?

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Taglist: Failed to generate tags for /my/path/to/file ctags: illegal option — -^@usage: ctags [-BFadtuwvx] [-f tagsfile] file … The taglist plugin will work only with the exuberant ctags tool. You cannot use the GNU ctags or the Unix ctags program with the taglist plugin. You will see an error message similar to the one shown above, if you try use a non-exuberant ctags program with Vim. To fix this problem, either add the exuberant ctags tool location to the PATH environment variable or set the Tlist_Ctags_Cmd variable. • A file has more than one tag with the same name. When I select a tag name from the taglist window, the cursor is positioned at the incorrect tag location. The taglist plugin uses the search pattern generated by the exuberant ctags utility to position the cursor at the location of a tag definition. If a file has more than one tag with the same name and same prototype, then the search pattern will be the same. In this case, when searching for the tag pattern, the cur

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