taglist works with gvim not with vim

Question

I can use taglist with gvim (launched from xterm) but not in vim(opened in putty). I get the following error when I try using taglist from vim Taglist: Failed to generate tags for /home/abbcd/abcd/XXXX.c ctags: unrecognized option '--format=2'^@^ITry 'ctags --help' for a complete list of options.^@ Wondering why it works fine with gvim and not in vim.

Answer 1

From the comments, the difference is in how $PATH is being set depending on how you connect.

The taglist.vim plugin file has a comment that says:

3. If the exuberant ctags utility is not present in your PATH, then set the Tlist_Ctags_Cmd variable to point to the location of the exuberant ctags utility (not to the directory) in the .vimrc file.

So add a line to your .vimrc file with something like:

let g:Tlist_Ctags_Cmd = '/usr/local/bin/ctags'

Use the path to the ctags binary that is working correctly for you. (The one returned by which ctags in the xterm.)