On 10/09/2024 15:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Cc: phil...@posteo.net, 43...@debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:41:43 +0300
From: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>
How do you feel about etags-regen-mode being on by default in some next
Emacs release? It shouldn't conflict with the manual invocations of 'M-x
visit-tags-file' - and of course if any cases come up we'll work on
fixing those.
As long as there's a way of turning it off, I don't think I will mind
too much.
Come to think about this: this mode runs 'etags' without any special
switches, right? Then what will turning this mode ON do in the Emacs
repository, where our 'etags' command is very heavily customized (see
src/Makefile.in)?
etags-regen-mode doesn't know how to parse Makefile.in, and it doesn't
seem feasible, so it needs the user to customize
`etags-regen-regexp-alist` for any special rules.
That's already done in the Emacs repo, see our .dir-locals.el.
