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RE: Enhance the support for specifying directories and files to gtags
From: |
Suresh Govindachar |
Subject: |
RE: Enhance the support for specifying directories and files to gtags |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:21:54 -0700 |
>> At present, the -f option to gtags only allows file names.
>> Please consider supporting gtags to be called with a list
>> of project directories, perhaps:
>> gtags -p /path/first/project,/path/second/project [dbpath]
>
> The -f option of gtags assumes find(1) command.
> You can invoke gtags with find like follows:
>
> find path/first/project path/second/project -type f -print | gtags -v -f -
Thank you for the illustration.
>> Also, consider supporting wild-card based options for to \
>> exclude files and directories.
>>
>> More generally:
>>
>> The directory specification for rsync
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
>> gives the user lots of control over the various directories and
>> files involved in the rsync command. It would help if gtags
>> gave the user more control over the project directories and files.
>
> I think that you should leave the selection of file list to some
> independent command like find(1). Find(1) has RICH options to
> make file list. Please see man find(1).
OK -- I understand your design philosophy now.
Thanks,
--Suresh