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hansgans
hansgans

Reputation: 347

Vim automatically load all tag files

I would like to automatically load all (c)tag file from a specific directory on startup of VIM. Currently I add them by hand:

set tags+=~/.tags/tag1
set tags+=~/.tags/tag2
set tags+=~/.tags/tag3

I would like to load all files via a wildcard and I tried something like this:

set tags+=~/.tags/*

which unfortunately doesn't work. Any ideas how I get this to work?

Best wishes, Peter

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1295

Answers (3)

drinker
drinker

Reputation: 39

You can try (in .vimrc):

for tagfile in split(globpath('$PWD/.tags/', '*'), '\n')
    let &tags .=',' . tagfile
endfor

I use $PWD because I always generate my tag files from the top of the project (and placed in .tags dir) and launch vim from the top (so $PWD works in my case) - but you can substitute for any hardcoded directory.

Upvotes: 0

SamIam
SamIam

Reputation: 1

You can specify multiple tag files in your .vimrc in the following manner by separating the list of tags files with a space, but you need to backslash your space.

example follows with 2. I do this to bring in tag files from my libraries.

set tags=./TAGS\ /path/to/your/other/TAGS

While in vi, you can type the following while in command mode;

:set tags=./TAGS\ /path/to/your/other/TAGS

Upvotes: 0

Luc Hermitte
Luc Hermitte

Reputation: 32986

You'll have to play with glob() I guess.

Something like (untested):

exe 'set tags+='.substitute(glob('~/.tags'), "\n", ',', 'g')

Upvotes: 2

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