created June 4, 2002 · complexity basic · author Travis · version 5.7
This definitely work on Linux and there is probably some windows equivalent.
I've started working with tomcat and many many .jsp files. I find this trick to be very helpful.
find -name '*.jsp' -printf '%f\t%P\t1\n' |sort > jsp.tags
This will create a file called jsp.tags with tag entries for each .jsp file. Within Vim I use
:set tags+=jsp.tags
Now I can to simple :tag file.jsp to quickly switch b/w the many, many .jsp files.
One important note. The utility sort will use the value of LC_COLLATE to sort according to your locale. This will give Vim issues. So try "LC_COLLATE=C sort" instead of plain "sort".
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There's also the :find command and the path-option, with which one can easily switch between files in arbitrary directories.
For example, if one sets
:set path+=/usr/include
on a Unix system one can do ":find stdio.h" to jump to the stdio-header file.
Recursive search is also possible by using the double-star:
:set path+=./**
Vim will :find any file under the current sub directory.
Use :sfind (split find) to open the file in a new window.