bug#28409: 26.0.50; xref, tags, and multiple projects

bug#28409: 26.0.50; xref, tags, and multiple projects

[Tom Tromey]

I have multiple projects open at a given time.

If I use xref on two projects, and load tags file for both, I would like
it if the tags were project-specific.  Currently I only have the option
to keep all the tags files together, which sometimes leads to conflicts
where the same symbol appears in both projects.

Tom



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bug#28409: 26.0.50; xref, tags, and multiple projects

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:29:03 -0600
> 
> I have multiple projects open at a given time.
> 
> If I use xref on two projects, and load tags file for both, I would like
> it if the tags were project-specific.  Currently I only have the option
> to keep all the tags files together, which sometimes leads to conflicts
> where the same symbol appears in both projects.

You should be able to make the tags tables local to a buffer by
invoking visit-tags-table with a prefix argument (see the doc string
of that command for details).  Did you try that?

bug#28409: 26.0.50; xref, tags, and multiple projects

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:29:03 -0600
>>
>> I have multiple projects open at a given time.
>>
>> If I use xref on two projects, and load tags file for both, I would like
>> it if the tags were project-specific.  Currently I only have the option
>> to keep all the tags files together, which sometimes leads to conflicts
>> where the same symbol appears in both projects.
>
> You should be able to make the tags tables local to a buffer by
> invoking visit-tags-table with a prefix argument (see the doc string
> of that command for details).  Did you try that?

Hi Tom,

Did the above solve the issue for you?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#28409: 26.0.50; xref, tags, and multiple projects

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
>>> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:29:03 -0600
>>>
>>> I have multiple projects open at a given time.
>>>
>>> If I use xref on two projects, and load tags file for both, I would like
>>> it if the tags were project-specific.  Currently I only have the option
>>> to keep all the tags files together, which sometimes leads to conflicts
>>> where the same symbol appears in both projects.
>>
>> You should be able to make the tags tables local to a buffer by
>> invoking visit-tags-table with a prefix argument (see the doc string
>> of that command for details).  Did you try that?
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Did the above solve the issue for you?
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas

More information was requested, but none was given within 45 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reply to this
email (use "Reply to all" in your email client) and we can reopen the
bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas