RE: Enhance the support for specifying directories and files to gtags

[Suresh Govindachar]

  >> At present, the -f option to gtags only allows file names.  
  >> Please consider supporting gtags to be called with a list 
  >> of project directories, perhaps:
  >>   gtags -p /path/first/project,/path/second/project [dbpath]
  >
  > The -f option of gtags assumes find(1) command.
  > You can invoke gtags with find like follows:
  >
  >   find path/first/project path/second/project -type f -print | gtags -v -f -

  Thank you for the illustration.
  
  >> Also, consider supporting wild-card based options for to \
  >> exclude files and directories.
  >>
  >> More generally:
  >> 
  >> The directory specification for rsync 
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
  >> gives the user lots of control over the various directories and 
  >> files involved in the rsync command.  It would help if gtags
  >> gave the user more control over the project directories and files.
  >
  > I think that you should leave the selection of file list to some
  > independent command like find(1). Find(1) has RICH options to
  > make file list. Please see man find(1).

  OK -- I understand your design philosophy now.

  Thanks,

  --Suresh