bug#43086: [PATCH] Allow tags backend to not query for TAGS file

[Philip Kaludercic]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>>>> - The possible values all look pretty clever, but there are a lot of
>>>> them! Do we expect them all to be in demand? Ideally, I'd only leave 2-3
>>>> of them, to reduce the number of workflows we need to care about.
>>> I'm ok with that, the variable could also be turned into a hook if
>>> reducing preconfigured options while making it easy to add new
>>> behaviours.
>>
>> Not sure how the direct conversion to a hook would look like.
>>
>> In any case, when I talked about using a hook (find-file-hook in
>> particular), the main benefit I had in mind is that the effect would
>> cover all uses of etags.el. Meaning, also
>> tags-completion-at-point-function.
>
> This was over a year ago, and it's unclear whether we wanted to do in
> Philip's patch's direction or not?  

What exactly was the issue with my suggestion?

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        Philip Kaludercic