On 2022-Oct-12, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> >> find . \( -name 'CVS' -prune \) -o \( -name .git -prune \) -o -type d -print |
> >> while read DIR
> >> -do [ "$DIR" != "." ] && ln -f -s `echo "$DIR" | sed 's;/[^/]*;/..;g'`/tags "$DIR"/tags
> >> +do [ "$DIR" != "." ] && ln -f -s `echo "$DIR" | sed 's;/[^/]*;/..;g'`/$tags_file "$DIR"/$tags_file
> >> done
> >
> > ... does this create a tags symlink on each directory? This seems
> > strange to me,
>
> I don't know the original author's intention for this but I think it
> makes use of the tag file in emacs a little bit easier. Emacs
> confirms for the first time the default location of tags file under
> the same directory where the source file resides. I can just hit
> return key if there's a symlink of tags. If we do not create the
> symlink, we have to specify the directory where the tags file was
> originally created, which is a little bit annoying.
OK, that sounds good then. I would make a feature request to have a
switch that supresses creation of these links, then.
> Well, I often visit different tags file for different development
> projects (for example Pgpool-II) and I don't want to have fixed
> location of tags file in emacs setting. For this reason make_etags's
> approach is acceptable for me.
Makes sense.
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