Integrating ctags in vim 7.4 in windows 7, Also QNX Momentics on it

Question

I have installed vim 7.4 in a windows 7 machine. The ctags that comes with it seems to be broken. When I do :!ctags -R . from within vim I get :

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c (ctags -R .)
Input file specified two times.

ctags: cannot sort tag file : No such file or directory
shell returned 1
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In this case ctags creates a tags file that is empty. I then installed ctags from sourceforge And it works.

But I could not find how I should tell vim to use the ctags I just doenloaded.

ctags installed in vim is 5.2.3

ctags from sourceforge is 5.8

I tried:

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let g:netrw_ctags = "C:/Users/aslavcd/Program Files/ctags58/ctags.exe"

To wherever ctags is. But it doesn't change it.

Problem Resolved. I had an older version of ctags installed by another program and added to Path.

Answer 1

OK. Silly answer. I had an older version installed by QNX Momentics and, of course, added to path.

Further information: QNX 6.5.0 puts its unix executables (like ls, mkdir, etc.) in the path, which is aproblem because I then ended up with two ctags executables in the path. In QNX 6.6.0. and later the instalation doesn't put the QNX executables in the path directly but uses a .bat file that is has to be executed in order to have them (like when you need compilation).

Answer 2

Put the ctags path into environment variable PATH. In powershell (administrative) do

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", $Env:PATH + ";<ctags_dir_path>", "MACHINE")

The version I have works normally. I don't use it directly but via TagBar plugin.

Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
  Compiled: Jul  9 2009, 17:05:35
  Addresses: <dhiebert@users.sourceforge.net>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
  Optional compiled features: +win32, +regex, +internal-sort

I installed it via Chocolatey: cinst ctags. If you isntall it this way, you don't have to do anything else as choco installer handles that. You can also put this into your vimrc such as:

if !executable("ctags")
    call system('cinst ctags')
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