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Feature request: automatic tags management

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Message #128 received at 67687 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 67687 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eskinjp <at> gmail.com, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de,
 stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#67687: Feature request: automatic tags management
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 17:47:09 +0200

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On 01/01/2024 14:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Either way, we get a poorly-defined behavior with edge cases that are
>>>> likely to surprise the user at different points of time. So we might
>>>> indeed grow such a capability, but it'll probably stay off by default.
>>> I agree that sometimes it could be against the user's expectations.
>>> But I also think that other times it is according to user's
>>> expectations.  Which tells me that this is a separate issue that needs
>>> a separate knob; we shouldn't deterministically deduce what users want
>>> in this respect from the fact that he/she loaded an existing tags
>>> table.  Moreover, it is quite possible that even when the mode is
>>> turned on, users might want sometimes to load tags tables manually.
>> I don't mind adding additional knobs.
> I guess for now it will be enough to document that invoking
> visit-tags-table disables the mode for that project.  AFAICT this is
> not currently documented anywhere in the patch.

OK, added a paragraph to the mode's docstring.

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