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Re: Generation of tags for the current project on the fly


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Generation of tags for the current project on the fly
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:50:45 +0200

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:50:33 +0300
> 
> Can we improve the "warm" reindex times? In the first message of this 
> thread I mentioned GNU Global because it reportedly supports incremental 
> updates. Can we get such feature in etags, too?

Incremental tagging needs to leave the record about what was tagged
somewhere, right?  Since there's no such feature in etags now, this
sounds like a project for which I won't have time any time soon.  Any
volunteers?

> I more or less imagine how I'd implement such a feature using Lisp and 
> 'etags --append', but that would do nothing to help when the tags are 
> generated by make.

It will also not help if Emacs is restarted, right?



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