Build OTP tags and add to vim tags path #34
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@hcs42 What do you think of this functionality? I have a very similar thing on my .vimrc at the moment, only that I'm extracting the path with |
| folder, it will build a tags file called `otptags`. The next thing you need, is | ||
| to make vim aware of this. That's where the next function comes in place: | ||
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| call GetOtpTagsPath() |
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Shall we use echo instead of call? call won't print anything.
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| function! AsyncBuildOtpTags() | ||
| let cmd = '(OTPPATH=`' . s:otppath_cmd . '` && ' . s:exec_script . ' -i $OTPPATH -o $OTPPATH/otptags)' |
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Vim cannot necessarily write "$OTPPATH/otptags". For me erl -noinput -eval 'io:format("~ts", [code:lib_dir()]), init:stop().' returns /usr/lib/erlang/lib, which causes AsyncBuildOtpTags to silently fail.
Three suggestions:
- Some error handling to report this situation.
- Maybe use the ":terminal" command instead of
system+&? (It was added in Vim 8.1.) - Maybe make it configurable to put the tags file somewhere else.
I posted my ideas in the review. I also generate a separate tagfile for OTP tags, so I understand the motivation. On the other hand, I generate my tags from bash (calling |
This is very useful in case you like having tags to OTP libs at hand, in many projects, and building tags for each project with the otp tags seems redundant. Like this, you can have one global otptags for all your projects.