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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-. |
Date: | Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:15:04 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/36.0 |
On 04/28/2015 04:25 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Yes, we've been through that, indeed. But it can be accomodated by requiring the user to explicitly say that some TAGS file covers "these and these extra directory trees" or to link TAGS file together.
Well, that's a bigger project than the 4-line patch you've suggested, and it requires manual intervention from the user. You suggested it before too, and I don't remember Eli being very enthusiastic.
The automatic suggestion could be restricted to only come about when there is a TAGS file in one of the parent dirs.
That won't help when I'm inside Emacs sources; I still don't want to use tags for Elisp.
Could be. But etags has been around for a long time and was the only "standard feature" of the kind until very recently in Emacs, so I think it's fair to assume that there are more such users out there.
etags might be popular (so some sort a general solution might be welcome), but that doesn't mean it's used with Elisp a lot.
For instance, if we consider Debian-like distributions, https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/emacs24-el/filelist does not include the TAGS file. I don't think the C sources are generally included in the binary distributions.
And if we're just talking about Emacs developers, I wonder why nobody else spoke up on emacs-devel or in this bug yet.
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