bug#67687: Feature request: automatic tags management

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 01/01/2024 14:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Either way, we get a poorly-defined behavior with edge cases that are
> > > > likely to surprise the user at different points of time. So we might
> > > > indeed grow such a capability, but it'll probably stay off by default.
> > > I agree that sometimes it could be against the user's expectations.
> > > But I also think that other times it is according to user's
> > > expectations.  Which tells me that this is a separate issue that needs
> > > a separate knob; we shouldn't deterministically deduce what users want
> > > in this respect from the fact that he/she loaded an existing tags
> > > table.  Moreover, it is quite possible that even when the mode is
> > > turned on, users might want sometimes to load tags tables manually.
> > I don't mind adding additional knobs.
> I guess for now it will be enough to document that invoking
> visit-tags-table disables the mode for that project.  AFAICT this is
> not currently documented anywhere in the patch.

OK, added a paragraph to the mode's docstring.

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