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. -- CART DRIVER: Bring out your dead! There are legs stick out of windows and doors. Two MEN are fighting in the mud - covered from head to foot in it. Another MAN is on his hands in knees shovelling mud into his mouth. We just catch sight of a MAN falling into a well. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///