Source vimrc and use tags in a parent directory

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created September 30, 2003 · complexity basic · author mosh · version 5.7

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" Source .../.vimrc and use .../tags in ancestor of source directory.
" useful when you have source tree eight fathom deep,
" an exercise in Vim loops.
let parent=1
let local_vimrc = ".vimrc"
let local_tags = "tags"
while parent <= 8
  if filewritable(local_vimrc)
    echomsg "sourcing " . local_vimrc
    exe ":so " . local_vimrc
  endif
  let local_vimrc = "../". local_vimrc
  let local_tags = "../". local_tags
  exe ":set tags+=".local_tags
  let parent = parent+1
  " ToDo: stop at the root on windows and ~ on unix.
endwhile
unlet parent local_vimrc

See tip 727 for a way to handle local vimrc.

References

• :help file-searching
• :help vimrc-intro
• :help tags

Comments

There's a simpler way to do this for tags:

set tags+=tags;/

 TO DO 
Check above tip. It probably should be entirely replaced with the comment above.

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