Re: Generation of tags for the current project on the fly

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 1/18/18 03:14, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> > Dmitry> I'm sure it would be helpful, even if only to study the approach.
> >
> > I pushed it to feature/etags-update.
>
> Thanks! I'll do some benchmarking if nobody beats me to it.

The first result: 'make tags' never finishes with that version. Here's 
the last output before it's stuck:

../lib-src/etags --include=../lisp/TAGS --include=../lwlib/TAGS \
  --regex='{c}/[        ]*DEFVAR_[A-Z_  (]+"\([^"]+\)"/\1/' \
  --regex='{c}/[        ]*DEFVAR_[A-Z_  (]+"[^"]+",[     
]\([A-Za-z0-9_]+\)/\1/' \
  ./character.c <...many lines here...> ./systime.h \
  --regex='{objc}/[     ]*DEFVAR_[A-Z_  (]+"\([^"]+\)"/\1/' \
  --regex='{objc}/[ 	]*DEFVAR_[A-Z_ 	(]+"[^"]+",[ 
]\([A-Za-z0-9_]+\)/\1/' \
  ./macfont.m ./nsfont.m ./nsmenu.m ./nsterm.m ./nsselect.m ./nsfns.m 
./nsimage.m

Tried it several times, including after 'make bootstrap'.

And here's another way to make it freeze:

find . -name "*.[ch]" | lib-src/etags - -o TAGS

(But both *.c and *.h finish okay separately).

Other than that:

1. '-u' doesn't seem to be statistically significantly slower than 
without (good), but maybe I haven't tested large enough repos.

2. Not sure I understand how .etags works. How do I tell it to only 
index *.c files? Any presence of wildcard ignore (!*) makes 'etags 
--find' index nothing.

3. 'lib-src/etags src/category.c -u -o TAGS' results in having only that 
file's tags inside TAGS (before, it contained the entries for all .c 
files). This behavior contradicts the help and stops the rest of my 
testing in its tracks.