Re: How to use etags-select

[Rafal Kurcz]

On 4 Wrz, 17:56, Scott Frazer <frazer.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Now it works very fast.
I did the same test as above on the same machine - now I get the list
of tags immediately.
Great thanks for help Scott.