From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: finding tags files based on location Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:08:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <8433d21a-3b4e-48b1-a88a-f5639d8e2f2d@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203998915 31708 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2008 04:08:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:08:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 05:09:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTr7j-0000eB-IQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:08:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTr7D-0007Wp-MO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:08:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTr6v-0007Us-3q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTr6q-0007RX-PO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTr6q-0007RT-Jy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTr6q-0007wY-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JTr6n-0007L0-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:08:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) In-Reply-To: <8433d21a-3b4e-48b1-a88a-f5639d8e2f2d@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51864 Archived-At: gamename wrote: > I often have to checkout multiple copies of the same source tree from > cvs. For example, if I have a source tree 'foo' in cvs, I may have 2 > copies like ~/foo0/bar and ~/foo1/bar in my home directory at the same > time. Each copy of the foo tree will have a tags file in 'foo/tags'. > > Does anyone have code that will enable emacs to determine which tags > file to use based on the tree i'm currently using? For example, if > I'm in foo1/bar, I would be using the tags file in foo1/tags, not foo0/ > tags. Is there code to dynamically determine that? Is it enough to make tags-file-name a buffer local variable, set appropriately for each file? If so: (defun set-local-tags-file-name () (when (file-exists-p "tags") (set (make-local-variable 'tags-file-name) (expand-file-name "tags")))) (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'set-local-tags-file-name) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA