Re: make_ctags: use -I option to ignore pg_node_attr macro

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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