[openbeos] gVim and ctags

I downloaded the latest gVim from BeBits and got it set up and finally
fixed the problem that was vexing me the last time I used it on BeOS:
the fonts looked horrible, basically unreadable. So after further
research on BeBits I finally saw the solution: the guifont must be set
to a fixed width font, and when doing that (particular with Courier10
BT), any spaces must be escaped. Still it is annoying that any
variable width fonts are rendered so horribly.

Since I found several other annoying bugs (like the mouse scroll wheel
support not properly maintaining the cursor position), I'll probably
get the VIM source and see if I can't fix them.

On another note I find using one or more tags files with VIM very
useful in navigating source code, and I was pleased to see the program
ctags installed under /bin in BeOS. Unfortunately this is a very old
version and I found it missed a lot of the C++ in ShowImage that I was
working with.

So I downloaded the latest ctags source and it configured and compiled
without problems on BeOS. This version parsed the ShowImage code much
better. If anyone else is interested in downloading this compiled
version, I've added it to BeBits:

http://www.bebits.com/app/4325

Regards,
Ryan

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