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I wrote a vim plugin named projtags, initially for loading tags file for projects. But as I can "set tags+=tags;" in my vimrc, it's not that useful on the tags file way. I expanded its feature to support commands for per projects, and this is much more useful :P Here are some examples:

Case 1: different coding styles

I did some squid hacking before. My coding style is as below:

set cindent
set autoindent
set smartindent
set tabstop=8
set softtabstop=8
set shiftwidth=8
set noexpandtab
set smarttab
set cino=:0,g0,t0

But squid coding style is different. They use 4 for shiftwidth. As hacking some project, you should always follow the original coding style. But add vim modeline into every file is also unacceptable. So I use projtags.vim to do this job:

let g:ProjTags += [["~/work/squid", ":set sw=4"]]

So that every time I'm editing a file within squid, vim will use 4 instead of 8 for shiftwidth, now I'm happy with both my own codes and squid codes.

Case 2: use ant as makeprg for java projects

First, I use a autocmd to set ant as makeprg for java files:

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.java :setlocal makeprg=ant\ -s\ build.xml

It works well for java files. But as I did some Android development these days, I also have lots of xml files to edit (and then make to see the result). I can't use such a autocmd for xml's, as not all xml's are in a java project. So projtags.vim is again the answer:

let g:ProjTags += [["~/work/pmats", ":set mp=ant\\ -s\\ build.xml"]]

So I can always use ":make" for ant under my Android project now, no matter it's .java or .xml.

My vimrc segment for tags and projtags

set tags+=/usr/local/include/tags
set tags+=/usr/include/tags
set tags+=/opt/local/include/tags
set tags+=tags;

let g:ProjTags = []
let g:ProjTags += [["~/work/squid", ":set sw=4"]]
let g:ProjTags += [["~/work/pmats", ":set mp=ant\\ -s\\ build.xml"]]

Patches for projtags.vim (e.g. Windows support, I haven't tested it but I guess it won't work under Windows now) are welcomed :D You can get the code from the git repo for my various scripts.