Re: tags without tags file

On 05/12/13 23:53, Alexey Muranov wrote:
> I am trying to understand how tags work in Vim. I do not have crated any tags files, but TagBar works and shows some document sections, but not all. I would like to understand what is going on.
>
> Is there any way to find out what tags file is currently used in Vim? Or does TagBar work without a tags file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexey.
>

I don't know about TagBar. About the use of tags in Vim, see
:help 'tags'
:help tagsrch.txt

For source files (in C etc.) you should arrange to have such tags files
generated by some utility (Exuberant Ctags is recommended) and placed
where Vim can find them when looking for them.

For the help, Vim uses a tags file in every help directory, i.e., in
each of the following directories which exist and contain help files:

~/.vim/doc/ (Unix)
~/vimfiles/doc/ (Windows)
$VIM/vimfiles/doc/
$VIMRUNTIME/doc/
$VIM/vimfiles/after/doc/ (rare)
~/vimfiles/after/doc/ (Windows:rare)
~/.vim/after/doc/ (Unix:rare)

The tags file in $VIMRUNTIME/doc (where you should not add, remove, or
change any files) is installed together with the rest of the runtime
files. If you add, remove, or modify help files in other directories,
you should run :helptags for the modified directory.

See :help :helptags


Best regards,
Tony.
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