Subject: bug#67687: Feature request: automatic tags management

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 16:40:10 -0800

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Should this be marked unsafe?  Actually, same question for all of the
>> above defcustoms, given that we use `shell-command-to-string'.
>
> Given that this option doesn't have the 'safe-local-variable' property,
> do we need to do something else?

I was thinking of setting

    :risky t

>>> +;; We have to list all extensions: etags falls back to Fortran
>>> +;; when it cannot determine the type of the file.
>>
>> (A battle-tested default, if nothing else.  ;-)
>
> I'd rather etags skipped unknown files, but there is no such option.

Yeah, that might make more sense.