Re: How to use etags-select

[Scott Frazer]

Scott Frazer wrote:
> Rafal Kurcz wrote:
> > Great thanks for help Scott.
> > Sorry for bothering you again but I think I found another weak point
> > of etags-select.
> > I started using it with the linux kernel's latest source tree.
> > I generated the TAGS file:
> > exuberant-ctags -R -e
> >
> > The size of TAGS file is 54 MB.
> >
> > Locating the tag with:
> > etags-select-find-tag-at-point
> >
> > takes about 10s on Pentium 4 2.4 GHz.
> > It takes about 15s when loading the TAGS table for the first time.
> >
> > Using the M-. takes about 0.5 s that is quite acceptable
> >
> > I did the test with Vim.
> > I generated the tags table with:
> > exuberant-ctags -R
> >
> > The size of tags file is 74 MB (37% larger than emacs TAGS table).
> > Vim is extremely fast when locating all the tags and showing the
> > choice list.
> > It takes much less than 0.5s.
> >
> > Do you have any idea why etags-select works so slowly ?

I changed the search algorithm, and it should be quicker now. I tried using
it on the kernel source like you did and it was a LOT faster for me.

Scott