Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
> > > I am observing that the taglist() function is not sensitive to the
> > > changes in 'tags' value. It also seems to cache the value of 'tags' as
> > > of the time the function is called for the first time. To reproduce the
> > > problem (you need to have patch 96 applied, otherwise there is another
> > > bug in 7.0GA that could mask the bug that the below is trying to show),
> > >
> > > - create a directory with at least one file that ctags recognizes. Make
> > > a copy of this directory.
> > > - Run ctags in both directories to create tags file. They will
> > > essentially be identical.
> > > - Start vim/gvim and cd to one of the directories. Have 'tags' set to
> > > "./tags".
> > > - Execute taglist() on a tag that you know exists, something like:
> > > :echo taglist('main')
> > > - Now, cd into the other directory, and run the same command. You will
> > > see that the tags are reported from the other directory.
> > > - Change 'tags' to the absolute path to the second directory and run the
> > > echo command again. You will still observe that taglist() is using the
> > > previous tags file.
> > >
> > > Can anyone confirm that they can reproduce this?
> >
> > Did you take into account that Vim uses "./tags" as the tags file
> > relative to the current file? Try editing another file after the ":cd"
> > command. Or use the value "tags", which means the tags file in the
> > current directory.
>
> Frankly speaking I didn't know that ./tags is relative to the current
> file (I was expecting it to be relative to the current directory),
> however that makes no difference to this bug.
> - when you run taglist() in the above steps, there is no file opened.
> - I repeated the experiment with just "tags" as the value for 'tags'.
> - I also tried hardcoding the tags value to the absolution paths of both
> tags files, something like: "c:/tmp/t1/tags,c:/tmp/t2/tags" and later
> changing it to something like "c:/tmp/t1/tags", but it continues to
> show results from both tags files.
Using Vim with patch 7.0.096 it works just fine for me. I can only
explain the behavior when 'tags' is set to "./tags". The result of
taglist() is not cached.
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