Anton Lindqvist wrote:
> Hi,
> This patch add a autocmd event called TagNotFound triggered when the requested
> tag was not found. The motivation for this event is as follows: I usually add
> the following to my vimrc in order to ensure my tags file is up-to-date:
>
> au BufWritePost * if filereadable('tags') | silent exe '!ctags -a %' | endif
>
> However this seems wasteful since the majority of my writes don't include new
> identifiers to be indexed. With this patch the command above could be replaced
> with:
>
> au TagNotFound * if filereadable('tags') | silent exe '!ctags' | endif
>
> Thus indexing would only be performed when a missing tag is requested.
>
> Another use-case for this new event would be to trigger a psearch when the tag
> was not found:
>
> au TagNotFound * exe 'psearch /' . expand('<amatch>') . '/'
Thanks, it looks useful. It still doesn't catch the case that a tag is
found but it's now in a different place. I wonder if we can do
something more clever, only rebuild the tags file when one of the files
change AND using a tag command. Might not be so easy.
> BTW: what's the recommended cinoptions for the Vim codebase?
Empty, that's my preference :-)
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