[Github-comments] [geany/geany-plugins] Geanyctags: Re-generating ctags file fails (#1042)

[nomadbyte]

Digging more into this... Obviously, this appears to be a known issue in [geanyctags.c](../blob/bc4dc07e4deb694b647977791a23af6776db4644/geanyctags/src/geanyctags.c#L234-L250) (albeit conditionally handled for Windows only).

Looks like the issue is tied to the output from the `find` command that feeds the file list for the `ctags` to index.

When the file list begins with `./` (the relative current directory) -- the base-name is empty. Thus the `ctags` apparently coughs out a blank line.

One way to avoid producing the `./` is to set a File filter for the project files (Project > Properties) to explicitly match named files. However this seems more like a workaround.

Alternatively, the `find` command in Geanyctags should be explicitly set to list **only files** `find -type f``. Not sure if this would affect the intended logic of Geanyctags in any adverse way.

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```
ctags --version
Exuberant Ctags 5.9~svn20110310, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert
  Addresses: <dhiebert at users.sourceforge.net>, http://ctags.sourceforge.net
  Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex
```

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