Re: Setup process for etags-regen-mode (Emacs 30.0.91 feedback)

[Morgan Willcock <morgan@ice9.digital>]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

>> I wasn't sure whether it was intentional to hard-code the functions to
>> advise while etags-regen-mode was still so new, or whether opting in
>> other functions hadn't been considered.
>
> Hadn't been considered yet, but I'm open to the idea. Two basic
> approaches is either through a new custom variable, or by making the
> function "public".
>
> The latter is a bit tricky because then we'd need to document what it
> does - and it basically launches all the work ((re)scanning the table,
> adding the hooks), and that setup might change over time.
>
>> Would it be possible to store the completion functions which will be
>> advised as a separate list, so that other packages can add completion
>> functions to that list and get the TAGS generation to trigger?  Or is
>> this an intentional boundary?
>
> The custom variable approach seems better, but we'll need to test how it
> interacts with being able to switch etags-regen-mode on by default.

Hi Dmitry,

I'm not in any great hurry to start wiring functions into it, and
waiting for more feedback before adding integration features seems the
logical thing to do.

Thank you for the explanation (and for creating the mode).

Morgan

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Morgan Willcock