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> 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?

A different but comparable solution is provided by Semantic (part of
the CEDET package, which will be included in Emacs-24).


        Stefan