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jrock2004
jrock2004

Reputation: 3501

Ctags on project level

I am trying to setup ctags and not sure if I am doing something wrong or not. I seem to not get any dropdown's for autocomplete and in vim when I do :tags it comes up empty.

Project Structure

C:\Users\costa\Development\CarApplication
- CarApplication.Web
----Controllers
------DashboardController.cs
- Tags
- global.json

So in windows explorer I got to the CarApplication directory, right click on global.json file and say edit in vim

Vim opens up and the file is loaded. I type :tags and hit enter

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Then using Ctrlp I open the DashboardController and do the same and I get the same results. Here is what is in my .vimrc

set tags=./.git/tags,tags;$HOME

I checked the tags file and there are stuff in it. This has gotten me stumped

Upvotes: 0

Views: 425

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196596

:tags shows the content of the tag stack. Each time you jump to a tag, that tag is added to the tag stack, you can then use :tags to visualize your tag history and jump to an arbitrary tag. If you didn't jump to any tag the tag stack is empty so :tags is useless at this point.

You can use :echo tagfiles() to see what tags files were found by Vim and :echo taglist('.') to display the (potentially long) list of tags found in those tags files.

To jump to a tag, you will need to use commands like :tag foo or :tlist foo or <C-]>.

See :help tags for the details.

Upvotes: 2

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