OK that does sound like an actual problem. But I think you would only be in a position to need to do it that way if you don't use CMake, Ninja, or one of those other tools. Bear works the way it does because it's kind of a hack. I have only wanted to use it for Make projects. If the problem is big enough for you and constant enough then you can switch tools to avoid having to compile. It's just an uncommon problem IMO.