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From: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
To: fabrice nicol <fabrnicol@gmail.com>
Cc: 47408-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47408: Etags support for Mercury [v0.5]
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 23:04:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mts2n1qq.fsf@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39f683d3-65d7-a7d9-18b1-cf6dfa7d254a@gmail.com> (fabrnicol@gmail.com)

>> Yes, unless I am mistaken, ctags has no practical use outside of the
>>> C-family language domain.
>> That's difficult to tell for me.  However, etags provides ctags support
>> for all languages it knows about.  I may be missing something, but I
>> think Mercury would be the first exception.  If that's the case, maybe
>> it would be worth  adding a comment telling so.
>
>ctags only differs from etags by the fact that its output is 
>Vim-compatible. But it so happens that Mercury has superior in-built 
>support for Vim tagging (the core team use Vim). So ctags would not 
>actually be used by users with Vim-compatibility requirements, they 
>would just use Mercury tagging on Vim.

Maybe adding this info in a comment inside etags' code would be useful
for future maintainers.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-06 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <25b8baef-11f2-7079-69d8-3207a24658fc@gmail.com>
2021-03-26  7:09 ` bug#47408: Emacs etags support for Mercury [v0.2] fabrice nicol
2021-03-27 10:51   ` bug#47408: Etags support for Mercury [v0.3] fabrice nicol
2021-03-28 13:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-28 15:49       ` fabrice nicol
2021-03-28 16:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-29 11:53           ` bug#47408: Etags support for Mercury [v0.4] fabrice nicol
     [not found]             ` <70503251-f8ea-9006-b7e7-b13b93bb71de@gmail.com>
2021-05-15  8:31               ` bug#47408: Fwd: " Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                 ` <53162dfb-0715-3077-78d1-3a8340943f2f@gmail.com>
2021-05-29  8:01                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                     ` <CANTSrJtDMu=4SWUcBRt51X8n42mOfB6_sFi8mNoZ0YgYdtE-DA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-29 10:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01  2:38                     ` bug#47408: Etags support for Mercury [v0.5] fabrice nicol
2021-06-06  9:48                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 13:34                         ` fabrice nicol
2021-06-06 18:18                           ` Francesco Potortì
2021-06-06 20:49                             ` fabrice nicol
2021-06-06 21:04                               ` Francesco Potortì [this message]
2021-06-07 12:13                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08  0:38                                 ` Fabrice Nicol
2021-06-08 10:53                                 ` Francesco Potortì
2021-06-08 11:47                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 12:47                                     ` Francesco Potortì
2021-06-10 13:59                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 16:52                                         ` fabrice nicol
2021-06-10 17:05                                           ` Francesco Potortì
2021-06-10 17:20                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 19:15                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 20:39                                             ` bug#47408: Etags support for Mercury -- fix explicit tags for existentially-quantified procedures fabrice nicol
2021-06-11  5:56                                               ` Eli Zaretskii

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