Re: IDE

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nix <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>         address@hidden, address@hidden
> Emacs: a Lisp interpreter masquerading as ... a Lisp interpreter!
> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 17:29:31 +0100
> 
> 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.

Are we still talking about an Emacs IDE?  If so, there's only one
tool: Emacs.  What happens behind the scenes is of interest to us
developers, but the user doesn't need to know, or even suspect.

Right?