Is there any way to override the default exclude filters?

[msellitto]

I'm attempting to generate ctags for a perl project I'm working on. One of the files has the extension of .lib (it's basically a Perl module, don't ask me why it's named with that extension though, it's a really old project).

Whenever I try to generate tags for it I see that ctags excludes *.lib as one of the default exclusion extensions. I try using --langmap or --map-perl that I want .lib extensions to be Perl it still doesn't create the tags. It still says it's ignoring that file. Is there any way to override this?

Thanks.

[masatake]

--exclude-exception is the option for you.

$ cat /tmp/foo.lib 
#!/bin/perl

sub f()
{
}
$ ctags -o - --exclude-exception='*.lib' --map-Perl=+.lib /tmp/foo.lib
f	/tmp/foo.lib	/^sub f()$/;"	s

[msellitto]

Thanks, I was using an older version of universal ctags that didn't have that option. Updated it to the latest and things are working!