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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

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