tags/tips completion

[Bert Wesarg]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Joerg Fischer <jf505 at gmx.de> wrote:
>  What searching is concerned, I thought it is better to search
>  in a macro string.  Suppose we have a thousand tags and we're
>  interested in those tags that match a certain pattern, which would be
>  roughly a dozen tags.  Searching like implemented in the original
>  patch, this would mean one search per tag.  Searching in a macro
>  string, ie, a newline separated list of all tags, this would mean just
>  a dozen searches.  Moreover, I thought the most common pattern would
>  be for completions, in which case one can get the desired tags
>  directly without doing searches.  This explains the whole thing.
Sorry I can't follow you here. I thought the list*() functions are
built-int MS and operate directly on the tags/tips database. If not,
how do you get the macro string with all tags?

Bert
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>  Jörg