This setup works with the following ~/.ctags:
--recurse=yes
--tag-relative=yes
--exclude=.git
--verbose=no
-f .git/tags
And the following line in .vimrc.before:
let g:autotagTagsFile = ".git/tags"
This is a mirror of http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1343
If you use ctags to make tags files of your source, it's nice to be able to re-run ctags on a source file when you save it.
However, using ctags -a will only change existing entries in a tags file or add new ones. It doesn't delete entries that no longer exist. Should you delete an entity from your source file that's represented by an entry in a tags file, that entry will remain after calling ctags -a.
This python function will do two things:
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It will search for a tags file starting in the directory where your source file resides and moving up a directory at a time until it either finds one or runs out of directories to try.
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Should it find a tags file, it will then delete all entries in said tags file referencing the source file you've just saved and then execute ctags -a on that source file using the relative path to the source file from the tags file.
This way, every time you save a file, your tags file will be seamlessly updated.
The master copy of this is in my github files: https://github.com/craigemery/dotFiles/blob/master/vim/plugin/autotag.vim