From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, 43086@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43086: [PATCH] Allow tags backend to not query for TAGS file
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 09:18:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v7z8yojd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef6452be-d2d2-40f9-9302-d3c7c245f3ce@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 7 Sep 2024 01:16:46 +0300)
> Cc: 43086@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 01:16:46 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>
> On 03/09/2024 19:39, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> >>> I could imagine this might be extended to allow an auto-generate option,
> >>> but that feature seems out of scope of this patch, and probably would
> >>> require some interoperation with project.el.
> >> Indeed. Actually, I have an old, WIP patch for tag file
> >> auto-generation which, yes, uses project.el. I can post it again if
> >> you're curious.
> > Hasn't this issue been resolved by `etags-regen-mode'?
>
> The part quoted above was, I think.
>
> What might still be missing, is functioning better without having a tags
> table generated - after all etags-regen-mode is off by default, and it
> might not work for certain projects anyway.
>
> Maybe just like this? This makes Xref identifier completion not query
> for TAGS unless already loaded. In many cases that would be TRT,
> although `C-u M-.` seems to regress (seems like we *would* want to query
> eagerly there).
I don't understand why the obvious way of asking the user whether they
would like to generate the tags table is not the solution here. What
did I miss?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-07 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-28 12:50 bug#43086: [PATCH] Allow tags backend to not query for TAGS file Philip K.
2020-09-05 0:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-06 21:50 ` Philip K.
2020-09-16 10:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-11-12 8:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 0:02 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-11 11:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-13 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2024-09-03 16:39 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-09-06 22:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-09-07 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-09-09 0:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-09-09 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-09 23:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-09-10 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-10 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-10 13:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-09-10 13:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
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