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Re: ctags/etags: rc file?
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Francesco Potortì |
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Re: ctags/etags: rc file? |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:07:06 +0100 |
>Would it be possible for ctags/etags to read a simple .etags (or
>something) file that contains the command line arguments? The reason
>for it is that often projects have a bunch of default arguments that
>are being passed to etags, which are not just regexps and it is
>annoying to keep track of them at times.
>
>If .etags (one argument per line) contains,
>
> --language=none
> --regex='/[ \t]*function.*=[ \t]*\([^ \t]*\)[ \t]*(/\1/'
> --regex='/###key \(.*\)/\1/'
> --regex='/[ \t]*global[ \t].*/'
> *.m
>
>And then issuing "etags -Z" (or some other sensible short option) it
>would be equivalent to running,
>
> etags --language=none --regex='/[ \t]*function.*=[ \t]*\([^ \t]*\)[
> \t]*(/\1/' --regex='/###key \(.*\)/\1/' --regex='/[ \t]*global[ \t].*/' *.m
You can put regular expressions for etags in a file. Have a look at the
info file of Emacs (node Etags Regexps) or the output of `etags --help'
(look for REGEXFILE).
Note that if you call etags from a Makefile it is probably more clear
and less prone to error to just put the --regex arguments on the
command line in makefile itself.