Re: Or probably just fix the org-ctags hook functions?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

>> ...
>> Probably the problem is not the side-effects done by loading
>> =org-ctags=, but rather that these hook function from =org-ctags= try
>> to do their job when the environment is not really ready for them,
>> i.e. when there is no known tag file around.
>> ...
>
> I disagree: the changes are done behind my back in an (almost)
> invisible manner and leave me surprised and mystified. Even if there
> was a TAGS file around, having links behave differently from one
> moment to the next, when the only thing I did in-between was ask for
> help on a completely unrelated Org mode function, is a nasty surprise.

Sure, but we should not reject Jens' proposal just because of this
argument. We can use the suggestions to improve org-ctags itself, after
it is explicitly loaded.

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