Re: [Anjuta-list] RFC: Generic tag-utils lib

[Naba Kumar <kh_naba yahoo com>]

On 21 Sep 2001 12:02:34 +0200, Timothee Besset wrote:
> I am not very familiar with ctags, so I don't know how well it fits with what we want to do. But I'd like to pin point a few important things about maintaining a program database for autocompletion and code browsing.
> 
> - ctags may not be the only solution? Have we looked at other tagging / indexing libraries? There may be more interesting/adequate libs around already.
Hmm, I haven't heard of any such lib. It will be very good though if we
find one. At least Biswapesh might have to reconsider his though of
writing one such lib :-)

> 
> - how/when is ctags called? you might want to let the user decide a few things as far as when ctags should be called. on low end boxes, you might want to update your program database only when the user explicitely requests it. in other cases you would do that each time a file is saved. if you have lots of CPU, you might want to update each time the editing buffers are changed.

I think this is already there. preference->misc->update tags image
automatically (or something like that).

> 
> - in cases where the browsing information has been generated from files and the current editing buffers are not the same (i.e. a few lines added / removed), then we need to have some mechanism that can get you the actual line numbers from the initial files line numbers.
Right now, it updates the tags information when the file is save. Though
we may need such features, it really is not that fatal, though having
such thing will be great.

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Regards,
-Naba

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