Absolute path on Vim 'tags' option

Question

I'm facing a problem to use an absolute path on Vim 'tags' option under Windows XP.

Directory hierarchy:

C:/ | Temp/ | | tags | test.cpp

Commands below on vim while editing test.cpp

:pw C:\ :set tags? tags=./tags,tags,'C:/Temp/tags','C:\Temp\tags' :echo tagfiles() [] :echo findfile('tags', 'C:/Temp') Temp\tags

So, despite the tag file can be found using findfile(), tag information aren't available to :tag or :ptag commands, and it is not found by tagfiles().

What am I missing here?

Note: I'd like to avoid using relative path and wildcards, as I'm working with a project with multi-level directory hierarchy with a single tag file, and using wildcards would be too slow.

Luc Hermitte · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-12 15:26:40Z

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Try :set tags=./tags,tags,c:/Temp/tags.

I think the problem comes from how you wrote the path to tags, quoted.

edited Sep 12, 2011 at 15:26

Luc Hermitte

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answered Sep 12, 2011 at 14:55

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mMontu Over a year ago

Thanks! This solved the problem! Just curious... any idea of why removing these quotes changed the behavior?

romainl Over a year ago

Because that's how you are supposed to write paths in your configuration file wether you are on some UNIX variant or Windows. I suppose the goal is to make vimrc files portable. BTW, thanks to Luc Hermitte for fixing my typo.

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