Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, tom@tromey.com, john@yates-sheets.org,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:39:18 +0200
> 
> > I thought that once this difficulty is solved, the others can easily
> > use the same solution.
> 
> In any case, that both seems relatively important (to support 
> etags-regen-lang-regexp-alist transparently with 'ctags -e') and fairly 
> difficult for me to implement myself.
> 
> So in the absence of some enthusiastic help, I think I'll go with option 
> 3 ("etags vendor" option) and look into implementing --langmap some 
> later, together with adding the corresponding feature to etags-regen-mode.

Sounds good.  And maybe we could convince the ctags developers to
donate the --langmap support code to us, then we could simply put it
in etags.