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





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Thanks & Regards

Denny Zhang