Re: [Ctags] New question or feature request :)

[Darren H. <dar...@te...>]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 Bin...@ec... wrote:

> I'm working on a medium sized project that has several sub-components. 
> Each subcomponent has a sub-component directory with src, include, lib, 
> bin, etc directories. As such I opted to use strategy 3 documented in the 
> FAQ for version 5.1 of exuberent ctags. When I get to the point of 
> creating the top level tags file the recommendation suggests essentially 
> doing a ctags -R which has to read all .cpp and .h files all over again. 
> Is there a way to have the top level ctags read in the lower level tags 
> files rather than having to reparse all of my code?

No.

I wrote the FAQ a long time ago (about 4 years ago), before
computers were as fast as they are today, and before Vim was as fast
at looking up tags as it is now. I now favor Approach 2, which is to
use a single big tag file (e.g. ctags -R) and would recommend that
in general. Ctags now rebuilds tags files really fast on modern
desktop systems (approximately 3 MB/sec). Vim also looks up tags in
a fraction of a second, even from multiple large tag files.

-- 
Darren Hiebert <da...@hi...>
http://darren.hiebert.com