From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:09:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83mtxedwfh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <779a6328-9ca5-202a-25a2-b270c66fe6dd@yandex.ru> <8fc5e96c-ebb8-c668-9b2a-c7c4ee54c0b9@yandex.ru> <83r1mwltob.fsf@gnu.org> <0bee9ab4-46bc-b6fd-97b6-e26cc80f1610@yandex.ru> <875z45dbm7.fsf@tromey.com> <835z44hh49.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnwkfym8.fsf@gnu.org> <0d2a3c9d-68ed-637f-5263-66a4e5345dc6@yandex.ru> <83o8hvfrtv.fsf@gnu.org> <06190875-0051-01af-5062-74c2c069e343@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39982"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, tom@tromey.com, john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 16:12:22 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLLJ-000A1T-Rv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:12:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41194 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLLI-0007mS-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:12:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLHx-0004kJ-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:08:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:32815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLHx-0000Vr-8E; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:08:53 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2195 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kzLHw-0007mT-4L; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:08:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <06190875-0051-01af-5062-74c2c069e343@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 12 Jan 2021 03:49:49 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262982 Archived-At: > Cc: tom@tromey.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, philipk@posteo.net, > john@yates-sheets.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 03:49:49 +0200 > > On 11.01.2021 16:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> Or if you 'M-x visit-tags-table' before having one auto-generated. > > > > I meant both the generation and the usage. Can we prompt the user in > > both cases if the current buffer doesn't tell us where the tags table > > should be? > > Okay, would we prompt for an existing, bespoke TAGS file, or for a > project directory to auto-generate tags from? > > The latter case means we'd basically mark that project as the "default" > for the purposes of etags-regen until the end of the current session. > > It wouldn't include tags from any of the project-less files, though. But > if you were only thinking about non-file-visiting buffers, that's not a > problem. I was indeed thinking about buffers that don't visit files.