Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: >>> Jason Aeschilman wrote: >>> [ about the same tag being found in two tags files ] >> >> Wow, if I use a comma instead of a semi-colon in my "tags" option, it will >> stop searching through tags files if a match is found! Before I had "set >> tags=tags;/" (see vim tip 94) but now I have "set tags=tags,../tags" and it >> works. I tried "set tags=tags,/" but it will not search the tags file in >> the parent directory like it does when semi-colon is used. Now I guess if I >> find myself more than one level deep, I'll have to set my "tags" option to >> "set tags=tags,../tags,../../tags,../../../tags" like I did once upon a time >> (before I came across the "tags;/" tip). >> > > You can try using the following: > > set tags=tags,tags;/ > > This uses the tags file from the current directory or searches for the > tags file from the current directory and in it's parent directories. > > or > > set tags=tags,./tags;/ > > This uses the tags file from the current directory or searches for the > tags file from the directory of the current file and in it's parent > directories. > > - Yegappan
In theory you'd think it would work that way, but with those two options, vim still goes beyond the local tags file when a tag exists, just like "set tags=tags;/". At least that's the case with vim 6.3.054.
