On 2013-11-25, Benji Fisher wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Micha Moskovic wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have the following problem. > I am editting a file for which a ctags file has been generated. This > file contains two tags, "tag1" and "tag2". With ":tag tag1" and ":tag > tag2", I can jump to "tag1" and "tag2" respectively. Now suppose I would > like to add both "tag1" and "tag2" to the tag stack. According to help, > I can do ":tag /pattern" to search for a pattern, and indeed > ":tag /tag." works as expected. However, I would like to search for > "tag1" and "tag2" only and so I tried ":tag /tag1\|tag2". However, > contrary to my expectations, this does not work! > > Am I doing something wrong? > > Regards, > Micha > > > I tried it, read the error message, and found that > > :tag /tag1\\|tag2 > > does the job. I did not find any mention of this under > > :help :tag > :help tag-regexp > > so maybe this is not documented. (Maybe I should try upgrading. I am still > using 7.3.646.)
I think this is covered in ":help :bar". '|' by itself would be a command separator. '\|' tells the command-line parser that you want a real '|' in the command. But you don't want just '|', you want '\|', so you need the first '\' to be itself, then the '\|' to be replaced by '|' when the string is given to the :tag command, which then sees '\|'. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
