Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10.01.2021 20:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I don't know how to automate it better. If the buffer doesn't belong to
> > any project, which tags table would we use for it? We'll have to prompt
> > the user, and that's what we do already by default.
> I thought this prompt will not be supported anymore.  If we are
> keeping it as fallback when the current buffer doesn't specify which
> tags table to use, then I'm okay with that.

For now it's clearly supported with the default value of 
etags-regen-mode (which is 'off'). Or if you 'M-x visit-tags-table' 
before having one auto-generated.

Having them work together would be better, I guess, but what should we 
do exactly?

Would we prompt for the tags table just once upon encountering a 
project-less buffer, and then use it for all such buffers in the current 
session?