Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> etags is only required to produce approximately correct byte
> positions, and it does that well enough.

OK, but in that case the method I proposed in 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-05/msg00657.html> will do a 
better job (on all platforms) that what we have now, right?  So it'd be an 
improvement, even if it's not perfect.

Although Andreas's suggestion of switching to a byte column count would also be 
an improvement over what we have now, it'd require a change to the tags file 
format whereas the method I proposed would leave the file format unchanged.