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Re: Or probably just fix the org-ctags hook functions?
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Nick Dokos |
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Re: Or probably just fix the org-ctags hook functions? |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:01:41 -0400 |
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Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> ...
>>> Probably the problem is not the side-effects done by loading
>>> =org-ctags=, but rather that these hook function from =org-ctags= try
>>> to do their job when the environment is not really ready for them,
>>> i.e. when there is no known tag file around.
>>> ...
>>
>> I disagree: the changes are done behind my back in an (almost)
>> invisible manner and leave me surprised and mystified. Even if there
>> was a TAGS file around, having links behave differently from one
>> moment to the next, when the only thing I did in-between was ask for
>> help on a completely unrelated Org mode function, is a nasty surprise.
>
> Sure, but we should not reject Jens' proposal just because of this
> argument. We can use the suggestions to improve org-ctags itself, after
> it is explicitly loaded.
Absolutely.
My disagreement was only with the part that I quoted, in particular
the "Probably the problem is not the side-effects done by loading
=org-ctags= ..." part: from my POV, that is *exactly* the problem
which I would like to see addressed.
--
Nick
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- Re: Or probably just fix the org-ctags hook functions?,
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- Re: Or probably just fix the org-ctags hook functions?, Jens Schmidt, 2023/08/11
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