Hi,
jorges wrote: > I found a behavior in vim that I don't understand, i.e. either the > interpretation of the documentation is wrong, the documentation is > wrong/not clear, or there is a bug in vim. For more details please > refer to > http://groups.google.es/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/8078be026935e051 > where I first asked for help. In brief, wildcards '*' use in the > 'tags' options are not being expanded as the doc suggests, so doing > something like: > set tags+=some_path/*.tags > doesn't add all files ending in .tags to the 'tags' option. > In the afore mentioned thread someone has already proposed a > workaround that solve this issue for me, I am posting just to point > out the issue so it can get clarified/fixed/etc. I think | "*", "**" and other wildcards can be used to search for tags files in | a directory tree. See |file-searching|. {not available when compiled | without the |+path_extra| feature} (from ":help 'tags'") means that wildcards are only used for directories and not for the file name part. Although I'd say it could be written more clearly. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
