Cannot use configuration files with same in name in different .ctags.d directories.

[paul-ollis]

If, for example,I have the following files:

• $HOME/.ctags.d/main.ctags
• $HOME/project/ctags.d/main.ctags
• $HOME/project/ctags.d/extra.ctags

Then when I run ctags in the project directory, the second main.ctags file is not loaded, but extra.ctags is.

This is not the behaviour I expect. I am happy to provide a pull request to fix this, if it is confirmed as a bug.

[masatake]

It is an intentional design; if a user is not stratified with $HOME/project/ctags.d/main.ctags, a .ctags file provided by the project, the user can override it with $HOME/.ctags.d/main.ctags, a .ctags file having the same file name.

[masatake]

We should write the behavior on our man page and let ctags report the overriding with the following code:

diff --git a/main/options.c b/main/options.c
index 5f8eb743..84f8275a 100644
--- a/main/options.c
+++ b/main/options.c
@@ -3611,7 +3611,12 @@ static bool parseAllConfigurationFilesOptionsInDirectory (const char* const dirN
 		fileStatus *s;
 
 		if (already_loaded_files && stringListHas (already_loaded_files, dents[i]->d_name))
+		{
+			path = combinePathAndFile (dirName, dents[i]->d_name);
+			notice ("%s is hidden", path);
+			eFree (path);
 			continue;
+		}
 		else if (already_loaded_files)
 			stringListAdd (already_loaded_files, vStringNewInit (dents[i]->d_name));