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[PATCH] Allow tags backend to not query for TAGS file

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Message #50 received at 43086 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, 43086 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43086: [PATCH] Allow tags backend to not query for TAGS file
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:45:05 +0300

> Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, 43086 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:41:43 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> 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)?

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