Increasing the maximum length of the argument list.

[Glenn Meyer]

inode0 wrote:
>
>> >> Third, and the reason I joined this list, is there any way to 
>> increase
>> >> the limit on the size of the argument list. I need an especially long
>> >> list for etags, and the program doesn't create a correct TAGS file 
>> when
>> >> I pipe the files list through xargs, at least, not one that emacs can
>> >> handle.
>> >
>> > Piping the filenames into etags on stdin is the usual way around this
>> > problem I think.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Create-Tags-Table.html
>
> suggests what I suggested - piping the filenames into etags to get
> around this issue.
>
That works great. Thanks very much for the help.

Glenn

> John
>

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