Automating TAGS file usage

Automating TAGS file usage

[Gary]

I surely can't be the first to want to generate and visit my TAGS files
automagically, rather than having to go through the manual process of
etags *.foo or whatever, followed by visit-tags-table. Since there are
flyspell, flymake, and I don't know what other fly* modes, I don't see
why etags couldn't be run in that manner as well. Has anyone already
tried this?

-- 
Gary
GNU Emacs 23.2.1
emacsclient 23.2
1.7.4(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-07 11:02 Cygwin

Re: Automating TAGS file usage

[filebat Mark]

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I am also extremely interested in this!

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>wrote:

> I surely can't be the first to want to generate and visit my TAGS files
> automagically, rather than having to go through the manual process of
> etags *.foo or whatever, followed by visit-tags-table. Since there are
> flyspell, flymake, and I don't know what other fly* modes, I don't see
> why etags couldn't be run in that manner as well. Has anyone already
> tried this?
>
> --
> Gary
> GNU Emacs 23.2.1
> emacsclient 23.2
> 1.7.4(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-07 11:02 Cygwin
>
>
>


-- 
Thanks & Regards

Denny Zhang

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Re: Automating TAGS file usage

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 10.08.2010 11:33, filebat Mark wrote:
>
> I am also extremely interested in this!
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name
> <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>> wrote:
>
>     I surely can't be the first to want to generate and visit my TAGS files
>     automagically, rather than having to go through the manual process of
>     etags *.foo or whatever, followed by visit-tags-table. Since there are
>     flyspell, flymake, and I don't know what other fly* modes, I don't see
>     why etags couldn't be run in that manner as well. Has anyone already
>     tried this?
>
Read recent discussion about automatic TAGS visiting:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/74280

Re: Automating TAGS file usage

[Stefan Monnier]

> I surely can't be the first to want to generate and visit my TAGS files
> automagically, rather than having to go through the manual process of
> etags *.foo or whatever, followed by visit-tags-table. Since there are
> flyspell, flymake, and I don't know what other fly* modes, I don't see
> why etags couldn't be run in that manner as well. Has anyone already
> tried this?

A different but comparable solution is provided by Semantic (part of
the CEDET package, which will be included in Emacs-24).


        Stefan

Re: Automating TAGS file usage

[filebat Mark]

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The package of etags-table is quite handy. It automatically loads TAGS file,
which is located in the direct/indirect parent directory.

If we register crond jobs to rebuild TAGS periodically, we don't need to
worry about the feature of finding function's definition any more.

Regards,
Denny

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenko@bifit.com.ua>wrote:

> On 10.08.2010 11:33, filebat Mark wrote:
>
>>
>> I am also extremely interested in this!
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name
>> <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>> wrote:
>>
>>    I surely can't be the first to want to generate and visit my TAGS files
>>    automagically, rather than having to go through the manual process of
>>    etags *.foo or whatever, followed by visit-tags-table. Since there are
>>    flyspell, flymake, and I don't know what other fly* modes, I don't see
>>    why etags couldn't be run in that manner as well. Has anyone already
>>    tried this?
>>
>>  Read recent discussion about automatic TAGS visiting:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/74280
>
>
>


-- 
Thanks & Regards

Denny Zhang

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Re: Automating TAGS file usage

[Gary]

Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> On 10.08.2010 11:33, filebat Mark wrote:
>>
>> I am also extremely interested in this!
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Gary wrote:
>>
>>     I surely can't be the first to want to generate and visit my TAGS files
>>     automagically, rather than having to go through the manual process of
>>     etags *.foo or whatever, followed by visit-tags-table. Since there are
>>     flyspell, flymake, and I don't know what other fly* modes, I don't see
>>     why etags couldn't be run in that manner as well. Has anyone already
>>     tried this?
>>
> Read recent discussion about automatic TAGS visiting:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/74280

Thanks. Am looking into that now.

-- 
Gary
GNU Emacs 23.2.1
emacsclient 23.2
1.7.4(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-07 11:02 Cygwin