[Chapter 30] 30.29 Setting Multiple tags Files
Author: Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly & Mike Loukides
Date: 1998-08-04T21:45:49Z

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| Chapter 30 vi Tips and Tricks |

## 30.29 Setting Multiple tags Files

You might have a tags file in your current directory. You might also have another system-wide or group-wide tags file. How can you make vi search both of them?

In your .exrc file (30.6) or at the colon (`:`) prompt, type a backslash (`\`) between the tag filenames:

>     set tags=tags\ /usr/local/lib/tags

- JP

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