On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Chris Van Dusen <cavandusen@gmail.com>wrote:

> > Even more super-magical would be if Emacs auto-generated the TAGS file,
> > if none could be found.  That is, if you `M-.' in a directory, and no
> > TAGS file can be found upwards, then it prompts you for where to
> > generate the file "from", generate it to /tmp/tmpTAGS, switch to it, and
> > delete the file.
>

Sorry to dig up a week-old thread, but I wrote something like this a few
months ago:

https://github.com/jrockway/eproject/blob/master/contrib/eproject-tags.el

I haven't used it a lot, but I thought I would mention it in case someone
is interested.

--jrockway