Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates

[Stefan Kangas]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> - Start Emacs built from this branch and open, say, src/xdisp.c.
>
> - Call 'M-x etags-regen-mode' to enable it.
>
> - DO NOT call 'M-x visit-tags-table'.
>
> - Call some xref command like 'M-.'. See message "Generating new tags
> table..." (it's saved in /tmp/...), then see navigation happen.
>
> - Pressing C-M-i instead should also trigger tags table generation.
>
> - Rename some function, try navigating to the new name. That should
> work. Navigation to the previous name should fail (unless there are
> other definitions for that name).

Sounds really promising.  Thanks for working on this.