Re: Missing entries for Perl in etags-regen-file-extensions -- okay for emacs-30?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:39:11 +0100
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 01:34pm +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> >> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:15:50 +0100
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Can I install this simple change on the release branch, please?
> >>
> >> -- >8 --
> >> ---
> >>  lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el b/lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el
> >> index 21ea9bfb8b3..e97b0cd7574 100644
> >> --- a/lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el
> >> +++ b/lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el
> >> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ etags-regen-regexp-alist
> >>  ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-01/msg00323.html
> >>  (defcustom etags-regen-file-extensions
> >>    '("rb" "js" "py" "pl" "el" "c" "cpp" "cc" "h" "hh" "hpp"
> >> -    "java" "go" "cl" "lisp" "prolog" "php" "erl" "hrl"
> >> +    "java" "go" "cl" "lisp" "prolog" "php" "erl" "hrl" "pl" "pm"
> >>      "F" "f" "f90" "for" "cs" "a" "asm" "ads" "adb" "ada")
> >>    "Code file extensions for `etags-regen-mode'.
> >
> > We already have "pl" in the list.  Adding "pm" is okay, but then why
> > only it? why not add all the extensions that 'etags' supports?
> 
> Okay thanks, I'll add "pm" so we don't have just one Perl extension, and
> hopefully we can figure out a better solution for master.

My question about adding more extensions was for emacs-30.

Let's wait for Dmitry to chime in, and take it from there.