Tip #255: arbitrary tags for file names

This definitely work on linux and there is probably some windows equivalent.
I've started working with tomcat and many many .jsp files.  I find this trick to be very helpful.

find -name '*.jsp' -printf '%f\t%P\t1\n' |sort > jsp.tags

This will create a file called jsp.tags with tag entries for each .jsp file.  Within Vim I use

:set tags+=jsp.tags

Now I can to simple :tag file.jsp to quickly switch b/w the many, many .jsp files.

One important note.  The utility sort will use the value of LC_COLLATE to sort according to your
locale.  This will give Vim issues.  So try "LC_COLLATE=C sort" instead of plain "sort"

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