From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#26181: Remove etags Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:42:06 +0200 Message-ID: <837f3iwsa9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5a534b9a-14bf-ca3f-ae04-f37c6f66d399@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490111014 17466 195.159.176.226 (21 Mar 2017 15:43:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:43:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 26181@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 21 16:43:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLwI-0002up-Eb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:43:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLwO-0006Fl-7j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLwC-0006E9-N1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLw7-00064T-7k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLw7-00064K-4U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLw6-0007Lz-V8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:43:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 26181 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 26181-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B26181.149011095028214 (code B ref 26181); Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 26181) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Mar 2017 15:42:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38142 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLva-0007L0-6F for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44219) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLvY-0007Km-8h for 26181@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLvO-0005oX-U2 for 26181@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLvO-0005oT-QO; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:42:18 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2372 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cqLvN-0002t4-TM; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:42:18 -0400 In-reply-to: <5a534b9a-14bf-ca3f-ae04-f37c6f66d399@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:03:24 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:130784 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:03:24 +0200 > > And [etags is] handy to have for now, at least until Universal Ctags > is widely available across distributions This indeed seems like the most important prerequisite, because the command-line options accepted by Universal ctags are incompatible with those of etags, so supporting both would be a pain. > > 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). You mean, if we want to support tools beyond Universal ctags? (Because the latter supports Emacs-compatible TAGS output.) Yes, if we want to support other tools, we'd need to extend etags.el or rely on external packages for parsing their tags tables. E.g. GNU Global doesn't support TAGS format even as an option, AFAIK.