Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Re: set (option)=script-variable-value

On 2011-12-13, Dave Ruden wrote:
> I am trying to set my "tags" option based on an analysis and
> decomposition/reconstruction of my opened edit-file path. I managed
> to get the desired 'tags' path constructed into a scripting variable
> string, but am not able to assign this string value to the VIM "tags"
> option. As a simple example:
>
> let myvar="abc"
> set tags=myvar
>
> I want the output of "set tags" to give:
> abc
>
> Instead it gives:
> myvar
>
> Does anybody know how to take the variable-value and set it to a vim-
> option?

let &tags = myvar

:help :let-&

Regards,
Gary

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