Re: Generation of tags for the current project on the fly

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:56:01 +0300
> 
> On 1/16/18 20:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Incremental tagging needs to leave the record about what was tagged
> > somewhere, right?  
> 
> The information is inside the TAGS file, isn't it?

Not really: the signature of each file at the moment of scan is
missing, and maybe also other things.

> And I think it should be fairly easy (in terms of the algorithm, at 
> least) to implement incremental update for one-to-few files: you scan 
> through the file, remove the corresponding entries, and then scan the 
> files (ones that still exist) and add those entries at the end.

This should be relatively easy.  Is that what you meant by
"incremental"?