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Installing exuberant-cTags package command is not executable

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Environment data

VS Code version: 1.18.1 Python Version: 2.7.6 OS and version: Ubuntu 14.04

Actual behavior

VSCODE prompts to install exuberant-cTags, But it returned command in string like ("sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags") which is not executable command must be without double quotes.

Expected behavior

Following command should run: sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags in terminal and install the same package

Steps to reproduce:

Open a python template and VSCODE will prompts to install exuberant-ctags plugin

Logs

Getting below log in VSCODE terminal bash: sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags: command not found

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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brettcannoncommented, Feb 1, 2018

Closing as “won’t fix” in preference to #197 .

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DonJayamannecommented, Feb 1, 2018

@harishgadiya As @brettcannon has mentioned, we’re a little busy prepping for the next release. However, I would be inclined not to accept any PRs to fix the Exuberant ctags issues, due to #197 .

I.e. the ideal solution to this issue would be to fix #197

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