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authorKenny Stuart <kstuart@arcadia-services.net>2011-06-24 02:23:48 +0200
committerPeter Odding <peter@peterodding.com>2011-06-24 02:24:06 +0200
commitd727ac0cb7b03747d0688d939210af07da4cad60 (patch)
tree9d697e8eaa7c567980968139104d4662353aacb2 /doc
parente454233ca5289444deaf2f6525af76b995fd9717 (diff)
downloadvim-easytags-d727ac0cb7b03747d0688d939210af07da4cad60.tar.gz
Allow enabling both dynamic and file type tags files
When both options are enabled, project specific tags files take precedence if they exist and are writable, otherwise a file type tags file is used. (Stuart wrote this code, Peter added the check for supported file types)
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diff --git a/doc/easytags.txt b/doc/easytags.txt
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--- a/doc/easytags.txt
+++ b/doc/easytags.txt
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ When you enable this option, the easytags plug-in will use the first filename
returned by |tagfiles()| as the tags file to write. Note that 'tagfiles()' is
reevaluated every time the plug-in runs.
+If you've also enabled |g:easytags_by_filetype| the project specific tags file
+must exist, even if it's empty; otherwise |g:easytags_by_filetype| will take
+precedence.
+
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The *g:easytags_by_filetype* option
@@ -151,6 +155,11 @@ existing directory. The easytags plug-in will create separate tags files for
each file type in the configured directory. These tags files are automatically
registered by the easytags plug-in when the file type of a buffer is set.
+If you've also enabled |g:easytags_dynamic_files| and the project specific
+tags file exists, and is writable, it will take precedence. If the project
+specific tags file doesn't exist you can indicate you want to use project
+specific tags by creating it.
+
Note that if you already have a global tags file you can create file type
specific tags files from the global tags file using the command
':TagsByFileType'.