app-vim/taglist is a plugin for vim that displays the structure of source code in vim (as in classes, functions and the likes). I have app-editors/vim-7.1.319 (acl bash-completion cscope gpm nls perl python -minimal -ruby -vim-pager -vim-with-x) and app-editors/vim-core-7.1.319 (acl bash-completion nls -livecd) installed and while the plugin itself does work (":TlistToggle" triggers the taglist for example) but they never display anything. The taglist homepage and the docs say that "The taglist plugin uses the Vim system() function to invoke the exuberant ctags utility. If Vim is compiled without the system() function then you cannot use the taglist plugin. Some of the Linux distributions (Suse) compile Vim without the system() function for security reasons." (http://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/manual.html) If Gentoo disables the system() call of vim, the taglist ebuild should be removed or at least masked, the preferred way might be to add a USEflag to vim that allows people to activate the system() call though it being probably insecure. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit some source code 2. enter :TlistToggle 3. TagList is displayed but without the proper listing of structures. Actual Results: No structures Expected Results: Structures being properly displayed. With the same vim profile on a ubuntu box it works so it's not a configuration within my ~/.vim*
It's not actually a bug in the taglist plugin, it is the ctags utility that has the bug, I filed it under http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232787.
