On 03/09/2024 19:39, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
I could imagine this might be extended to allow an auto-generate option,
but that feature seems out of scope of this patch, and probably would
require some interoperation with project.el.
Indeed. Actually, I have an old, WIP patch for tag file
auto-generation which, yes, uses project.el. I can post it again if
you're curious.
Hasn't this issue been resolved by `etags-regen-mode'?
The part quoted above was, I think.
What might still be missing, is functioning better without having a tags
table generated - after all etags-regen-mode is off by default, and it
might not work for certain projects anyway.
Maybe just like this? This makes Xref identifier completion not query
for TAGS unless already loaded. In many cases that would be TRT,
although `C-u M-.` seems to regress (seems like we *would* want to query
eagerly there).
Adding a user option is still... an option.
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
index d3eb0d46e9b..a4e9abe9b7a 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
@@ -2102,7 +2102,9 @@ xref-backend-identifier-at-point
(cl-defmethod xref-backend-identifier-completion-table ((_backend
(eql 'etags)))
- (tags-lazy-completion-table))
+ (and (or tags-file-name
+ tags-table-list)
+ (tags-lazy-completion-table)))
(cl-defmethod xref-backend-identifier-completion-ignore-case ((_backend
(eql
'etags)))
