bug#43086: [PATCH] Allow tags backend to not query for TAGS file

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

>>> - The possible values all look pretty clever, but there are a lot of
>>> them! Do we expect them all to be in demand? Ideally, I'd only leave 2-3
>>> of them, to reduce the number of workflows we need to care about.
>> I'm ok with that, the variable could also be turned into a hook if
>> reducing preconfigured options while making it easy to add new
>> behaviours.
>
> Not sure how the direct conversion to a hook would look like.
>
> In any case, when I talked about using a hook (find-file-hook in
> particular), the main benefit I had in mind is that the effect would
> cover all uses of etags.el. Meaning, also
> tags-completion-at-point-function.

This was over a year ago, and it's unclear whether we wanted to do in
Philip's patch's direction or not?  

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