Re: IDE

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:00:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
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> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Where "definition" can be whatever you want, AFAIK.

"Definition" in this context means the implementation.  There's only
one implementation, but there might be many references
(a.k.a. "calls").

> A TAGS file is just an index.  You can index whatever you like,
> AFAIK.

An index where the key is the symbol itself can only hold one instance
of every symbol.