Re: ctags/etags: rc file?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   You can put regular expressions for etags in a file.  Have a look at the
   info file of Emacs (node Etags Regexps) or the output of `etags --help'
   (look for REGEXFILE).

That solves part of the problem, it does not solve the other where one
wishes to pass other flags, like --include, --language,
--no-duplicates (for ctags).], etc.

   Note that if you call etags from a Makefile it is probably more
   clear and less prone to error to just put the --regex arguments on
   the command line in makefile itself.

Not all projects have a Makefile (sadly).