Eric Roberts wrote:
Hello!
I seem to be having some difficulty in using tag files for a C project.
I've done some searching on the maillist with no progress. I'm working
under Win32, and here's what I have in my _vimrc
set tags+=c:\Projects\some_folder_name_here\tags
When I explore to a folder deeper into the tree (e.g.
c:\Projects\some_folder_name_here\some_other\something.c) and try to
jump to a tag, it complains that no tag file was found - and hence no tags.
However, if I 'cd' into the c:\Projects\some_folder_name_here\ , and
then 'e' the file from that directory, I can properly jump to the tag.
Some of this source code is deeply nested in folders, so this becomes a
bit of a nuisance to do.
When I print tags by :set tags , it prints out the correct paths (the
defaults) and my additional path seperated by commas.
Thanks for your time in advance,
- Eric
Are there spaces in your "some_folder_name"? If there are, notice what is said
about that, both under ":help 'tags'" and about ":help option-backslash". You
may need to use prefix each space by three backslashes, in order to get
backslash-space in the option value, because in 'tags' a plain space in the
value is treated like a comma. Alternately, you may use 8.3 folder names to
avoid spaces altogether.
When you cd to the directory in question, the entry "tags" (without quotes),
which is part of the default value, finds your tagfile.
Best regards,
Tony.
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