diff --git a/rc/base/ctags.kak b/rc/base/ctags.kak
index 96c93f809..d076cef0a 100644
--- a/rc/base/ctags.kak
+++ b/rc/base/ctags.kak
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def -params 0..1 \
                 re=$0;
                 sub(".*\t/\\^", "", re); sub("\\$?/$", "", re); gsub("(\\{|\\}|\\\\E).*$", "", re);
                 keys=re; gsub(/</, "<lt>", keys); gsub(/\t/, "<c-v><c-i>", keys);
-                out = out " %{" $2 " {MenuInfo}" re "} %{eval -collapse-jumps %{ try %{ edit %{" $2 "}; exec %{/\\Q" keys "<ret>vc} } catch %{ echo %{unable to find tag} } } }"
+                out = out " %{" $2 " {MenuInfo}" re "} %{eval -collapse-jumps %{ try %{ edit %{" ENVIRON["tagroot"] $2 "}; exec %{/\\Q" keys "<ret>vc} } catch %{ echo %{unable to find tag} } } }"
             }
             /[^\t]+\t[^\t]+\t[0-9]+/ { out = out " %{" $2 ":" $3 "} %{eval -collapse-jumps %{ edit %{" ENVIRON["tagroot"] $2 "} %{" $3 "}}}" }
             END { print length(out) == 0 ? "echo -color Error no such tag " ENVIRON["tagname"] : "menu -markup -auto-single " out }'