Vim: Difficulty setting up ctags. Source in subdirectories don't see tags file in project root
add this to .vimrc
file set tags=tags;/
This will check the current folder for tags file and keep going one directory up all the way to the root folder.
So you can be in any sub-folder in your project and it'll be able to find the tags files.
There is an option to tell Vim where to look for tag file.
I use the following configuration:
" search first in current directory then file directory for tag file
set tags=tags,./tags
Extract from help :
When a tag file name starts with "./", the '.' is replaced with the path of the current file. This makes it possible to use a tags file in the directory where the current file is (no matter what the current directory is). The idea of using "./" is that you can define which tag file is searched first: In the current directory ("tags,./tags") or in the directory of the current file ("./tags,tags").
For example: :set tags=./tags,tags,/home/user/commontags
And I keep my current working directory in the top project directory where my tags
file is generated.
Use :pwd
and then :cd myproj
(inside Vim) to go to the directory containing your tags file.
See :help tags-option
for more information on tags path.
You issue is probably that you are either in the wrong directory, or your tags
option is not properly set.
#!/bin/sh
FREEZE_NAME=/* Give some version number */
mkdir $HOME/ctags/$FREEZE_NAME
V1=/* Software Path */
find $V1 -name "*.h" | xargs /usr/local/bin/ctags -a -f $HOME/ctags/$FREEZE_NAME/h.tags
find $V1 -name "*.c" | xargs /usr/local/bin/ctags -a -f $HOME/ctags/$FREEZE_NAME/c.tags
cd $HOME/ctags/$FREEZE_NAME/
rm -f all.tags
cat c.tags h.tags >> all.tags
sort all.tags > temp.tags
mv temp.tags all.tags
rm -f c.tags h.tags
Put the above code in a .sh file and run... This will generate your tags for sure.