From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gamename Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: finding tags files based on location Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:01:05 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <38795075-7c18-4e8e-b9a4-ba42fc3f5119@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <8433d21a-3b4e-48b1-a88a-f5639d8e2f2d@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204060027 16938 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2008 21:07:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:07:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 22:07:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JU71L-0003wo-7f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:07:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JU70p-0005F0-AH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:06:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.222.192.62 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1204052465 23443 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2008 19:01:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:01:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.222.192.62; posting-account=7UkxlwoAAACoABDEFXUvLX1hUNHcpo5L User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156524 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:05:29 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51897 Archived-At: On Feb 25, 8:08 pm, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > gamename wrote: > > I often have to checkout multiple copies of the same source tree from > > cvs. For example, if I have a source tree 'foo' in cvs, I may have 2 > > copies like ~/foo0/bar and ~/foo1/bar in my home directory at the same > > time. Each copy of the foo tree will have a tags file in 'foo/tags'. > > > Does anyone have code that will enable emacs to determine which tags > > file to use based on the tree i'm currently using? For example, if > > I'm in foo1/bar, I would be using the tags file in foo1/tags, not foo0/ > > tags. Is there code to dynamically determine that? > > Is it enough to make tags-file-name a buffer local variable, set > appropriately for each file? If so: > > (defun set-local-tags-file-name () > (when (file-exists-p "tags") > (set (make-local-variable 'tags-file-name) > (expand-file-name "tags")))) > > (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'set-local-tags-file-name) Thanks Kevin, but I don't think that scales very well. If I have thousands of files, that wouldn't be workable. -T