ludovicchabant/vim-gutentags

questions about how to use the .gutctags

irreallich opened this issue · 1 comments

irreallich commented

vim-gutentags is a great tools and I really like it.
Now I try to read the linux kernel with vim, it is worked but the .tags file is very large(444M).
I hope to ignore some files in the drivers and arch folder by .gutctags
my questions:

  1. could I use " g:gutentags_cache_dir" and .gutctags together?

  2. I tried to disable g:gutentags_cache_dir , then the .tags ,GTAGS,GPATH,GRTAGS will be created in the root folder of source, it seems worked.
    when I add . gutctags with the following words
    --exclude=drivers/*
    or
    --exclude=drivers

the size of .tags is only 477 Bytes, it seems failed for ctags, GTAGS,GPATH,GRTAGS are ok.
Is there problem?

ludovicchabant commented

Hi! Thanks!

  1. Yep you can.

  2. The reason for that is that when you specify a .gutctags, it replaces the default options file provided by Gutentags (which sets by default the --recursive=yes option). So you have to re-specify the recursive flag in your .gutctags. It's not super obvious, sorry about that... but I did want to make it possible for people to have full control over the options. Arguably I could control the default option with another flag but I was lazy...

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