Bert Wesarg wrote:
> ...
> So, I ended up with this:
>
> list_{tags,tips}([file ][, stub [, mode]])
You're right, list_tags() and list_tips() is better than the mode
option. What searching is concerned, I thought it is better to search
in a macro string. Suppose we have a thousand tags and we're
interested in those tags that match a certain pattern, which would be
roughly a dozen tags. Searching like implemented in the original
patch, this would mean one search per tag. Searching in a macro
string, ie, a newline separated list of all tags, this would mean just
a dozen searches. Moreover, I thought the most common pattern would
be for completions, in which case one can get the desired tags
directly without doing searches. This explains the whole thing. I
didn't consider the naming of the function or why to have an mode
option or having two functions. There were no rationale about these
things.
Jörg
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