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Why am I getting that my emacs tags are not a valid tag table?

I just tried creating some tags for emacs by running something like:

ctags -e --extra=+q --sort=yes -R /codebase/one /codebase/two /usr/include /usr/include/c++

I drop this in some subdirectory of my home directory. And then I go, say, to the code base / one and do it M-x visit tags-table, and load it, and it complains:

File /home/palchan/.tags/tags is not a valid tags table

why is this not a valid tag table?

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Try to remove the option --sort=yes.

This solved the problem for me with both ctagsversions 5.8 (latest) and 5.5.4 (distributed with my version of Linux).

ctags, Emacs, , , , Emacs. : .

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