I am trying to find a way to auto-regenerate tags for my application and visit those tags in emacs to try to improve my workflow. Is it possibl开发者_JAVA技巧e to get emacs to detect changes in TAG file and re-visit it ?
There is a tags setting:
(setq tags-revert-without-query t)
Which will tell tags functionality to re-visit the TAGS file if it changes on disk. This check happens every time you invoke a tags function.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I have a small function to regenerate and re-visit the tags table in the current working directory that I use all the time.
(defvar tags-cmd "etags -R 2>/dev/null")
(defun regen-tags ()
"Regenerate the tags file for the current working directory"
(interactive)
(let ((tag-file (concat default-directory "TAGS")))
(shell-command tags-cmd)
(visit-tags-table tag-file)))
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