Re: [Ctags] question on ctags...

[Paul S. <pa...@to...>]

Hello Darren,

> [...]
> How important do people on this list feel that an update option to
> ctags would be (to refresh tags in the tag file for the listed files)?

If the speed is as you have stated, there is hardly a need for the
refreshing of the tags (and there is no reason to doubt it), since this will
rather take time. If the tags are sorted by file name, it might be simple.

One Windows-based ctag application keeps tag file for each file and
updates whenever this is a change, the reason here being speed and
support for incremental search (at the expense of physical memory).
However, with the stated speed of the tag generation and the great tag
reading interface (readtags), there is hardly a need for this. The readtags
supports partial matching/searching option and could be used to implement
the incremental search.

Best regards,
Paul.