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

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 03:56:19 +0200

On 02/01/2024 03:40, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 01/01/2024 21:25, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 20:48:37 +0200
>>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>>> [email-masked]
>>> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> On 01/01/2024 19:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 19:23:28 +0200
>>>>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>>>>> [email-masked]
>>>>> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/01/2024 18:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>>>> +The exception is made when the user has already selected a tags
>>>>>>> +table manually (for example, using \\[visit-tags-table]).  Then
>>>>>>> +this mode doesn't do anything.  Reset the visited tags tables
>>>>>>> +using \\[tags-reset-tags-tables]."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The above is only true for the project whose TAGS was manually
>>>>>> visited, right?  IOW, it's not that once the use invokes
>>>>>> visit-tags-table once, this mode will be effectively disabled for the
>>>>>> entire session, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> No, it's the latter. It's off for the whole session, just like a 
>>>>> visited
>>>>> TAGS file is active for the whole session (not limited to any specific
>>>>> project).
>>>>
>>>> OK, then please tweak my suggested text to explain the situation
>>>> correctly instead.
>>>
>>> How about this?
>>>
>>> If you select a tags table manually (for example, using
>>> \\[visit-tags-table]), then this mode will be effectively
>>> disabled for the entire session.  Use \\[tags-reset-tags-tables]
>>> to countermand the effect of a previous \\[visit-tags-table].
>>
>> SGTM, thanks.
> 
> All right. I think I'll wait a days or two for any more comments and 
> then install the feature.

Pushed to master, and closing. Thanks to everyone for the discussion.