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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | bug#20629: 25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files. |
Date: | Fri, 29 May 2015 02:48:57 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Dmitry Gutov wrote: > If you want my opinion (please keep in mind: not an etags user), > following in Exuberant Ctags's footsteps sounds best. I'm not one either, but I've been meaning to ask: why is etags in Emacs? It does a generic job that isn't specific to Emacs, and other programs that do this exist. https://github.com/fishman/ctags seems active and has an Emacs developer (Masatake YAMATO) as a contributor. The question was asked before: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00075.html It's my (superficial) impression that etags hasn't progressed much since then. The majority of the changes seem to have been generic code-cleanup stuff. Is it that etags recognizes Emacs-specific C code that ctags does not? My only motivation for asking is that it's good to reduce the number of things that need to be maintained in Emacs, where possible.
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