Timeline for How do I populate tags for C?
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| Mar 24, 2021 at 2:50 | comment | added | db48x |
Yes, most projects add a tags target to their Makefile, and make it a dependency of the all target. That way they can regenerate the TAGS file whenever they recompile, such as with M-x compile.
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| Mar 23, 2021 at 16:52 | comment | added | wasamasa | Matter of taste really. For the Emacs sources it's not worth it for me to automate the task because I just use them to find out where a built-in is defined and only update them after each stable Emacs release. Do whatever works for you. | |
| Mar 23, 2021 at 15:42 | comment | added | Mittenchops | Is this something people generally do "out of band" from having a file up in the editor---done calling etags in the makefile via an external shell, versus having an emacs macro for running this process? | |
| Mar 23, 2021 at 9:01 | history | answered | wasamasa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |