Re: [bug-idutils] idutils.el and Emacs 22

[Jim Meyering]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro J Ruiz Lopez <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Pedro> Tom, thank you very much for your contribution. I hope idutils
> Pedro> to be useful for anything you need.
>
> I think I only have two wish-list items at the moment:
>
> 1. Automatically ignore .svn directories.  Currently I specify this by
>    hand but it is hard to imagine when I'd want to index these.

Good idea.  Sounds easy, too.
And .git, .hg, etc. ones.  Just to save the traversal costs.
With .svn, there are actually commonly-indexed files, so it's
especially important for svn users.

> 2. Incremental updates.  Ideally I'd like to re-run mkid on every file
>    change, either via an Emacs hook or an inotify wrapper.  But it is
>    a bit too slow to do this for GCC (even just the compiler -- the
>    target libraries would make this really impossible :-).

I'd like this, too.
I think this item has been on at least an implied wish list
from the very beginning :-)

Do you feel like working on either of those?