From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 26181@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26181: Remove etags
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:03:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a534b9a-14bf-ca3f-ae04-f37c6f66d399@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hbk27koo3d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 20.03.2017 01:15, Glenn Morris wrote:
> I've never understood why Emacs includes a tags program.
> It's not part of the normal remit of a text editor.
FWIW, it has been handy when we introduced xref and started treating the
tags a bit more strictly.
> The situation has changed since then in that etags no longer has a
> maintainer (IIUC).
AFAIK Eli is the maintainer now. And it's handy to have for now, at
least until Universal Ctags is widely available across distributions,
handles all languages as well as etags does, and outputs correct entries
WRT implicit/explicit tag names (not 100% sure there is a problem, but
it's something that we had to fix in etags recently, at least).
Having all these conditions satisfied seems to be a .
> Having our own tags program means we can tweak it to work better for our
> own code; but conversely it would be better if our code Just Worked with
> standard (ie external) tools.
The latter might mean learning to use the ctags output (Vim format).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-21 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-19 23:15 bug#26181: Remove etags Glenn Morris
2017-03-20 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-20 20:35 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-21 9:03 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2017-03-21 10:34 ` Francesco Potortì
2017-03-21 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-21 16:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-03-29 5:14 ` John Wiegley
2017-04-03 20:54 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-04 16:20 ` Richard Stallman
2022-02-08 6:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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