I'm trying to port my tagging workflow from Vim & ctags to Emacs & etags. I currently use git hooks to write a tags file to .git/tags
in ctags format whenever I commit/merge/etc. This keeps each project indexed with an up-to-date tags file.
fugitive.vim makes sure Vim will look for tags in the .git
directory associated with the current buffer. For a Ruby project that uses gems, bundler.vim ensures Vim will look for tags in each included gem's directory.
This lets me navigate freely throughout various projects without having to tell Vim where to find tags. I've added a git hook to write tags to .git/etags
in the etags format, but I'm not sure how to get Emacs to find tags files automatically. I'd like to avoid hard-coding the value of tags-table-list
if possible.
Before I reinvent the wheel and translate the logic of fugitive.vim and bundler.vim into elisp, is there an existing solution for this kind of thing?