Re: Preloading TAGS and completion table

[Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>]

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.

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