Re: Navigating an enormous code base

[Marcus Harnisch <mh-gmane@online.de>]

On 28/04/2022 16.50, John Yates wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 3:14 AM Marcus Harnisch <mh-gmane@online.de> wrote:
> 
> I take that as "My project is not large enough
> to prompt me to consider partitioning, therefore
> why should you?".  The flawed assumption is
> that your code base is comparable to mine.

No assumption being made. All I can offer is sharing my experience from 
projects I work on. Nobody can save you the work of trying for yourself 
whether any suggested tool satisfies your needs in your environment.

> Because it misses the point.  I am not looking
> to navigate by tags, but rather by filename.

Arguably, the main purpose of Global is navigation by tags and 
references. However, one of the database tables stores the path names of 
all indexed files.

Turns out that my primary use pattern actually involves navigation by 
file name (‘ggtags-find-file’). In *my* project the combination of 
ggtags/Helm shows no noticeable delay.

Leo will be able to tell how this works behind the scenes, interacts 
with Emacs completion frameworks and how it might scale to larger 
projects such as yours.