Re: Loading large/multiple tags files

[Xah]

On Oct 20, 10:03 pm, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Adrian wrote:
> > Is there any way to load tags files without interactive confirmation
> > messages?  I want to load tags on startup for a large source tree.
> >  Every time I started emacs, I was receiving a confirmation message
> > asking if I wanted to load my .TAGS file, since it was "large."  To get
> > around this message, I tried breaking the .TAGS file into two (one for C
> > code and one for Python), but now emacs asks every time it is opened if
> > I want to keep the existing TAGS table, presumably when it tries to load
> > the second.  The file names are .TAGS_C and .TAGS_PY, so there should
> > not be a namespace conflict.  Is there any way to load tags tables
> > non-interactively?  I am currently using (visit-tags-table .TAGS) in my
> > .emacs file.
>
> (let ((large-file-warning-threshold nil))
>    (visit-tags-table ".TAGS"))

does many people use this tags?

one time i tried to read the manual to see what the heck it is, then
it say i need to run some command line tool to compile it first, at
which point i think i stopped. (don't recall i have the command line
available in os x)

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