From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oleksandr Gavenko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Preloading TAGS and completion table Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:03:27 +0300 Organization: At home. Message-ID: <87k3ybe640.fsf@desktop.home.int> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341950629 23203 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2012 20:03:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:03:49 +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 Jul 10 22:03:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sogez-0007xG-1t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:03:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sogey-0001GU-3T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:03:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Soges-0001GG-0s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sogep-0005fh-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:03:41 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sogep-0005fN-HK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sogen-0007fh-QK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from 46.185.20.32 ([46.185.20.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from gavenkoa by 46.185.20.32 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:03:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 46.185.20.32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NsMQV0fyzt0hF6vfSjtPWctlYMY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85770 Archived-At: On 2012-07-10, Ludwig, Mark wrote: > I use Emacs to maintain a large software system (>10,000,000 lines of code). > We have multiple releases in the field under active maintenance (plus the > next release under development). I have cron jobs that make TAGS daily > (overnight) because it takes hours to read the entire source in the multiple > release source branches. Each TAGS file per branch is over 40MB. > [SKIP] > How about GNU Global? From: http://www.gnu.org/software/global/ * incremental updating of tag files > When I want to use tag completion, it takes about a minute for Emacs to > construct the completion table. Meanwhile, I can't do anything else in > Emacs. I'm wondering if it's possible to get the completion table pre-loaded > in the background, so when I am finding a tag and hit '?' I get an > instantaneous response the first time, instead of a minute-long wait. > I think that Global start faster... > If asynchronous execution isn't possible or wise, I'll settle for a way to > forcibly load the completion table (without my needing to manually trigger > it). I don't see a way to do that, either. > (visit-tags-table-buffer) Look docs, I just make exercise to find this function. > P.S. If there is a better e-mail list for this question, please let me know. > Nope. This is best. -- Best regards!