Homepage: https://github.com/jixiuf/ctags-update
Updated:
(auto) update TAGS in parent directory using exuberant-ctags
And the following to your ~/.emacs startup file.
(ctags-global-auto-update-mode)
(setq ctags-update-prompt-create-tags nil);you need manually create TAGS in your project
or only turn it on for some special mode
(autoload 'turn-on-ctags-auto-update-mode "ctags-update" "turn on `ctags-auto-update-mode'." t)
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'turn-on-ctags-auto-update-mode)
...
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-ctags-auto-update-mode)
when you save a file ,`ctags-auto-update-mode' will update TAGS using `exuberant-ctags'.
custom the interval of updating TAGS by `ctags-update-delay-seconds'.
if you want to update (create) TAGS manually
you can
(autoload 'ctags-update "ctags-update" "update TAGS using ctags" t)
(global-set-key "\C-cE" 'ctags-update)
with prefix `C-u' ,then you can generate a new TAGS file in your selected directory,
with prefix `C-uC-u' same to prefix `C-u',but save the command to kill-ring instead of execute it."
on windows ,you can custom `ctags-update-command' like this:
(when (equal system-type 'windows-nt)
(setq ctags-update-command (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/bin/ctags.exe")))