Jason Aeschilman wrote:

> > [ about the same tag being found in two tags files ]
> >
> > > Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > > First of all, it's recommended to upgrade to Vim 6.4.  It includes many
> > > > bugfixes.
> > > >
> > > > But that doesn't solve this specific problem.  I'll look into it.
> > >
> > > Bram, did you have a chance to look at this yet?
> >
> > Yes.  It's not easy to figure out the full name of the file, so that
> > duplicate matches can be removed.  I don't plan to do this for Vim 7.
> >
> > > Does anyone else know if there is a setting to get the old behavior
> > > back?  I simply want vim to look at only the local tags file and if a
> > > match is found to jump.  If and only if there is no match in the local
> > > tags file, it will consult the parent tags file, according to the "set
> > > tags=tags;/" setting I have in my .vimrc.
> >
> > The "very old behavior" was in fact wrong in a few other ways, some tags
> > would not be found.  Thus you can't get this back, you were depending on
> > a bug.
> 
> First of all, I appreciate the help from you and Brett Stahlman.  Thanks for
> following up on this.  I'm a little confused though because in the help it
> says this under *tags-option*:
> 
> The next file in the list is not used when:
> - A matching static tag for the current buffer has been found.
> - A matching global tag has been found.
> 
> So if my tag is indeed in the current tags file, why would it even search
> the parent tags file?  Again, my tags setting is "ctags=tags;/" as suggested
> in Tip #94 [http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=94].

If you do ":tag ID" then the first found tag is used and Vim may not
report the other tags, as in "tag N of M".  But if you do ":tselect" Vim
will find them all.

> Even if I do "ctags --file-scope=no -R" in the parent directory and "ctags
> *.[ch]" in my sub-directory and I'm in my sub-directory, still it does not
> fix the problem.  I even changed my tags option to 'set
> tags=./tags;tags;~/code'.  These steps are part of the suggested solution by
> the ctags author, Darren Hiebert, as described in the ctags FAQ
> [http://ctags.sourceforge.net/faq.html#15].  I believe this is what Brett
> Stahlman was referring to.

Whatever you set the 'tags' option to, you need to make sure tags appear
in only one tags file.  If you use "../tags" then you don't need a tags
file in the current directory.

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