>> Could the ctags -a argument (or some other mechanism) be used to >> simulate the inclusion mechanism? > > AFAIK there is no such mechanism in ctags files, nor in vi or its clones > who read tags files.
It may be possible to use ctags' -a/--append option here. Maybe having 'make ctags' run in $top_builddir do something like rm -f $top_builddir/ctags. After that, the 'make ctags' target in all subdirectories appends to $top_builddir/ctags using 'ctags -a $top_builddir/ctags'. If that vague description sounds useful, I'll take a pass at getting it working. Let me know. If that's not something you think generally useful, I'm happy to stick to ctags -R for my own work. Thanks, Rhys
