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[Savannah-register-public] [task #3656] Submission of Very fast tags for emacs |
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Tue, 18 Jan 2005 05:33:01 +0000 |
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Summary: Submission of Very fast tags for emacs
Project: Savannah Administration
Submitted by: binutils
Submitted on: Tue 01/18/2005 at 05:33
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###### ORIGINAL SUBMISSION DETAILS ######
System Group Name:
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vtags
Full Name:
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Very fast tags for emacs
Type:
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GNU
License:
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GNU General Public License V2 or later
Other License:
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Description:
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The purpose of this project is to provide a replacement
for the Emacs etags package.
On large projects it is not unusual to have multi-MB tag files. One of the
main drawbacks of etags is that the tags are not sorted so that tag lookup is
linear and slow. Another shortcoming of using etags and Emacs is that the
entire tag file is loaded into memory, which, when combined with the linear
search, leads to interminable garbage collection and memory exhaustion. This
project addresses these issues. It does a binary search without reading the
entire tag file into memory.
A preliminary version of this project is available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vtags/
Other Software Required:
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This project should be compatible with most versions of Emacs or XEmacs. We
will try to minimize version dependencies.
Other Comments:
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The vtags project has been hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vtags/
since Sept 21, 2004. It was announced to comp.emacs on Oct 3 2004.
Shortly thereafter, Richard M. Stallman suggested that vtags and etags be
merged. I think it is a good idea. We have had some preliminary discussions
on which features can be implemented efficiently and which cannot. I will
incorporate some of that discussion in the upcoming documentation.
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