Re: Bug Report (Feature request?) etags (GNU Emacs 21.1)

[Stefan Monnier]

> Personally, I do not think we should burden ourselves with this at
> all.  I certainly would not give a .web file to etags, and _not_
> giving .web files to etags is easily automated :-) So I _believe_ that
> the right thing to do would be to create references for all files
> given to etags, and to obey #line.  So if someone gives a .y and .c
> file to etags, it _should_ create duplicate references to the .y file.
> 
> Of course one could optionally have etags remove duplicate entries, or
> (maybe even better), if both the .y and .c file are given than etags
> could take this as a hint to not obey #line for this particular .c
> file, but I believe the best approach for now might be to simply
> generate the duplicate references and be done...

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        Stefan