Vim auto-generate ctags

Question

Right now I have the following in my .vimrc:

au BufWritePost *.c,*.cpp,*.h !ctags -R

There are a few problems with this:

Answer 1

I wrote easytags.vim to do just this: automatically update and highlight tags. The plug-in can be configured to update just the file being edited or all files in the directory of the file being edited (recursively). It can use a global tags file, file type specific tags files and project specific tags files.