The manual includes this section describing how to start a tag file:

The first line of global tags files should be a comment, introduced by # followed by a space and a string like format=pipe, format=ctags or format=tagmanager respectively, these are case-sensitive. This helps Geany to read the file properly. If this line is missing, Geany tries to auto-detect the used format but this might fail.

This is wrong for ctags files because after reading the # format=ctags line the file is rewinded. And then ctags parsing aborts on the very first line because it is expecting a different format. It only skips !_TAG_ lines.

On recognizing !_TAG_ lines the tag file format is set to TM_FILE_FORMAT_CTAGS so tag file authors should be instructed to only use such lines for ctags files and not lines starting with #.

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