Re: IDE

[Nix]

On 24 Oct 2015, Eli Zaretskii outgrape:

>> From: Nix <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>,
>>         Przemysław Wojnowski
>>  <address@hidden>,
>>         Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>>         address@hidden
>> Emacs: The Awakening
>> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:17:10 +0100
>> 
>> Raw TAGS files are more or less unsuitable for anything but C and Lisp,
>> and are pretty poor even for that (e.g. you can only jump from uses to
>> definitions, the definition can only be in one place...)
>
> Raw TAGS files are not supposed to be used for anything but
> definitions.
>
> For references, you are supposed to use ID-Utils or something similar,
> which use a different format of their DB.

Two different tools, for more or less identical jobs except that one is
one->many and the other is many->one? (In particular, the hard part
isn't the data structure, but the parsing.)

That strikes me as really, really ugly.

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