On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On 22 Oct 2002, Allan M. Stewart wrote: > > > FYI, > > > > Last week I posted a msg to the list asking what happened to ctags > > since it was AWOL after a clean install of 8.0 . I finally got around to > > searching for it today and found it in the XEmacs package. I don't use > > emacs, but did have it installed anyway on past versions. > > > > Certainly not where one would expect it to be. > > The ctags RPM is in the distribution. The ctags package included with > xemacs is part of the xemacs package system. I don't know what the logic > is of building that humungous xemacs RPM with all the packages included, > but I do know that the xemacs package system is distinct from other stuff > included with the distro. So if you want emacs and xemacs both with the > same capabilities, you will need to have duplicates of packages like > auctex, maybe ctags, etc. If you only want xemacs, then a lot of those > features will already be included and need not be loaded again. >
When I do a "whichcd ctags" I get ou appear to be running Red Hat Linux 8.0. I'll search for rpms for that version. Searching for ctags... CD-2:ctags-5.2.3-4.i386.rpm CD-5:ctags-5.2.3-4.src.rpm Oisin Feeley
