On 12 November 2010 02:32, Nick Treleaven <
nick.treleaven@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:11:30 +1100
> Lex Trotman <
elextr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > However, even if geany -g worked on .R files, the approach would be
>> > difficult to apply in practice. It requires the user to specify .R
>> > files, and given the structure of R packages this could be a quickly
>> > become tedious. It would have been much easier if Geany accepted a
>> > path in which it could recursively scan (and parse) R files. The
>> > rtags() function can do that, so it might make sense to find a
>> > conversion route for etags files.
>> >
>>
>> Whats the structure of R packages?
>>
>> Presuming from the above that it is lot of files in nested directories
>> you could use find to run geany -g on them all. Whilst that gives you
>> lots of tag files to open, I don't expect it to be too much slower
>> than one huge file.
>>
>> Otherwise patches are welcome.
>
> I'm not sure that reimplementing Unix find is something Geany should be
> doing really. But documenting how to do that in the manual would
> be a good idea.
>
> Supporting CTags format is something on the TODO list.
>
> You can 'see' the format in tagmanager/tm_tag.c in the tm_tag_write()
> function. That is just called repeatedly for each tag entry in the file.