Re: Can't find tag!

On 11/17/2011 05:40 PM, John Little wrote:
>
> On Nov 17, 4:40 am, AK<andrei....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My guess is that if vim sees a tag file with
>> any tags from current file, it stops searching other tag files and
>> assumes current tag does not exist? -ak
>
> (I was hoping someone who'd used tags with python would chime in, I
> haven't. Ironically, I've used python to generate tags.)
>
> No, normally there can be lots of tag files and vim searches them all
> if necessary, and it doesn't stop when it finds a tag if you've
> used :tselect.
>
> F. ex., in the vim source tree I've put a "tags" file in every
> directory, and in a vim at the top of the tree
>
> :set tags=**/tags
> :ts main
>
> I see 17 choices.
>
> Regards, John
>

Ok, thanks.. at any rate it works fine for me now. -ak

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