Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!husc6!encore!pierson From: pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: advice on creating a large TAGS file Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 90 14:19:40 GMT References: Sender: news@Encore.COM Organization: Encore Computer Corporation Lines: 23 In-reply-to: bob@MorningStar.Com's message of 26 Jun 90 20:49:58 GMT In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > Since I have no problems making separate TAGS files for each > subdirectory, are there any tools for merging multiple Emacs TAGS > files? cat works fine > vi tags files were single-line entries, so they could be > merged with sort(1) and friends. I suppose I could go learn perl... Do you really want the tags sorted? If so, cat clearly won't do it all. On the other hand, I generally work with a 1.7 meg TAGS file with multiple definitions of many tags (sort of OO code). Sorting isn't useful, but ordering the sub TAGS files so that the definitions I'm most likely to be interested in come first is. -- dan In real life: Dan Pierson, Encore Computer Corporation, Research UUCP: {talcott,linus,necis,decvax}!encore!pierson Internet: pierson@encore.com