Running jsctags on the js files in the doctorjs repository fails

[srathbun]

If I attempt to run find . -name '*.js' | xargs jsctags from the root of the doctorjs repository, I receive the following error:

/usr/local/bin/jsctags:195
                throw e;
                      ^
SyntaxError: ./bin/dr.js:1: Illegal token
    at Object.Narcissus.lexer.Tokenizer.newSyntaxError (/usr/local/narcissus/lib/jslex.js:546:21)
    at Object.Narcissus.lexer.Tokenizer.get (/usr/local/narcissus/lib/jslex.js:527:28)
    at Object.Narcissus.lexer.Tokenizer.peek (/usr/local/narcissus/lib/jslex.js:176:27)
    at Object.done (/usr/local/narcissus/lib/jslex.js:149:25)
    at Statements (/usr/local/narcissus/lib/jsparse.js:394:22)
    at Script (/usr/local/narcissus/lib/jsparse.js:180:9)
    at parse (/usr/local/narcissus/lib/jsparse.js:1841:17)
    at Object.exports.Tags.Object.create.Trait.compose.Trait.scan (/usr/local/lib/jsctags/ctags/index.js:101:19)
    at processPath (/usr/local/bin/jsctags:189:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/bin/jsctags:207:5)```

Granted, this means that there is invalid javascript in the file. But jsctags should not bomb out because one line fails.  

Even if it is too much trouble for the parser to throw out bad input and continue, jsctags should at least run the rest of it's arguments. 

[bulash]

the same issue. @srathbun, if you have found a solution please share.

[srathbun]

This was just a test of jsctags to see if the issue I was seeing on a different code base also affected the tool itself. I ended up coming to the conclusion that unless I wanted to go through the source and fix the parser logic, the only thing I could do was adjust which files it ran on.

I dumped the results of find into a file, and removed entries that caused jsctags to fail. This ended up being enough of a problem that I have dropped the tool for the time being.

[bulash]

After some googling I've found this patch: https://gist.github.com/3206510
It adds --ignore {lib} option and gives some thoughts how to customize error handling.