Problem when using ctags: "write |1: file already closed" about zoekt HOT 2 CLOSED

the error messages reads as if it doesn't support the JSON communication mode in universal-ctags (there are a ton of compilation modes).

I don't know that sourcegraph uses ctags at all. I thought they have their own parsing machinery.

easiest is to compile ctags from source as detailed here:
https://github.com/google/zoekt/blob/master/doc/ctags.md

or download from
https://storage.googleapis.com/zoekt-binaries/ctags-2020-08-26T1308-c9ebd839.tar.gz

from zoekt.

Thanks for the tips. It must be something in the way I am building universal-ctags. I haven't figured a fix to the compilation, but the pre-built binary you supplied works perfectly.

For anyone stumbling across this at a later date, here's an example Dockerfile that makes used of the supplied ctags binary.

from zoekt.