[Geany-Users] "Project" alternatives? Tags?

[Harold Aling]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 17 April 2013 21:25, Harold Aling <geany at sait.nl> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> Lex, any news on speeding up the project index? The tags file
>> >> generation was done in 6 seconds, the Project plugin takes up to 10
>> >> minutes to do the same, with the addition of the "go to definition"
>> >> support ...
>> >
>> >
>> > Well, you will have to address the speed of the project plugin to its
>> > developer, but if it has extra functionality I guess that could be part
>> > of
>> > why its slower.  I think it is scanning all the files in the project,
>> > finding the tags and adding them all to the tagmanager as if the files
>> > are
>> > open.  That could be part of the delay, but the maintainer would know.
>> >
>> > I checked with the expert on Geany's tags capability, and sadly none of
>> > the
>> > tags system knows the filenames, so it can't do goto definition.
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> $ time geany -g /tmp/drupal7.php.tags $(find . -type f -name '*.php'
>> >> -o -name '*.module' -o -name '*.inc' -o -name '*.install' -o -name
>> >> '*.engine')
>> >>
>> >> real 0m6.322s
>> >> user 0m6.228s
>> >> sys 0m0.088s
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>> >
>> > How long does it take to load the tags?
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>> Within a second:
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>> 13:23:06: This is Geany 1.24 (git >= 235b861).
>> 13:23:06: File
>> /home/harold/checkout/XXXX/modules/contrib/registration/registration.module
>> opened(1).
>> 13:23:06: File
>> /home/harold/checkout/XXXX/modules/contrib/registration/includes/registration.forms.inc
>> opened(2).
>> 13:23:06: File
>> /home/harold/checkout/drupal7/sites/all/modules/contrib/flag/flag.module
>> opened(3).
>> 13:23:06: File
>> /home/harold/checkout/XXXX/modules/custom/XXXXmod/XXXXmod.module
>> opened(4).
>> 13:23:06: File
>> /home/harold/checkout/XXXX/modules/custom/XXXXmod/XXXXmod.install
>> opened(5).
>> 13:23:06: File /home/harold/checkout/XXXX/modules/contrib/vppr/vppr.module
>> opened(6).
>> 13:23:06: File
>> /home/harold/checkout/XXXX/modules/features/XXXX_ct_page/XXXX_ct_page.info
>> opened(7).
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> Hi Harold,
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> None of the above are tags files, how long does it take to load
> drupal7.php.tags?  And does that contain the tags for *all* the files that
> gproject indexes?
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> I do want to ensure that we are comparing like to like.

The files above are from my last session and are loaded within a
second. Geany also starts instantly end, of course, has all tags and
calltips loaded after opening those 7 files.

I will re-enable the Project plugin, move
~/.config/geany/tags/d7.php.tags and give Geany a reboot. Back in 10
minutes! ;)

-H-