I would like to be able to use an existing ctags file as alternative option to having ST3 index my project because:
- very large project and I already have a script to generate the tags file for the specific directories and exclude other files/dirs
- project includes non-standard file extensions and non-standard language extensions that are currently known to work with ctags, unknown for ST3
- the script I use calculates tags file size for each included directory tree so I can balance tags file size vs convenience and speed
- some generated code may include non-printable data that could conceivably confuse another indexing mechanism, already worked around this in existing tags generation script.
It would be very helpful to have manual indexing configuration:
- index path (I use ~/tags)
- build script (I use ~/build_tags.pl)
- auto vs manual rebuild (I prefer to manually rebuild when necessary)