From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org,
dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:49:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835z44hh49.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z45dbm7.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:49:36 -0700)
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, philipk@posteo.net,
> tom@tromey.com, john@yates-sheets.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:49:36 -0700
>
> I tend to think that conceptually each buffer should point to its
> corresponding tags table.
What about buffers that don't belong to any project? M-. generally
works (or should work) in any buffer.
> It seems to me that the default ought to be to update the tags table on M-.
> One nice way to do this would be to run etags in the background, so that
> the work of updating would be done in parallel with the user typing,
> since presumably you'd want to ensure that etags has finished before
> jumping to the result (or fulfilling a completion request).
The common use case is that you place point on a symbol and type M-.,
in which case you don't need (and don't expect) to type anything else.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-10 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-14 3:36 Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 3:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 15:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 16:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-01-09 21:49 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10 13:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 16:56 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10 19:39 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10 23:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 23:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 23:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-11 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 1:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 4:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-12 16:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-12 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 16:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 17:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 22:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-13 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-13 15:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-13 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-16 3:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-16 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-01-10 16:58 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10 17:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 23:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-11 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 1:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18 23:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-19 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-19 14:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-19 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 1:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-20 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 20:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-20 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 21:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-20 21:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-21 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 20:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 19:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 1:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
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