From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#47408: Etags support for Mercury [v0.5] Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 23:04:45 +0200 Organization: The GNU project Message-ID: <87mts2n1qq.fsf@tucano.isti.cnr.it> References: <70503251-f8ea-9006-b7e7-b13b93bb71de@gmail.com> <838s4gxurw.fsf@gnu.org> <53162dfb-0715-3077-78d1-3a8340943f2f@gmail.com> <838s3y6kaq.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0n7iarj.fsf@gnu.org> <65f059b1-149d-146d-3b8d-36db60ff1044@gmail.com> <87o8cin9fb.fsf@tucano.isti.cnr.it> <39f683d3-65d7-a7d9-18b1-cf6dfa7d254a@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12933"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 47408-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: fabrice nicol Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 06 23:05:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lpzxF-00038R-Ko for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 23:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50900 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpzxE-0004ls-63 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpzx8-0004ld-A5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpzx8-00019A-3D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lpzx7-0008Eh-Us for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:05:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 21:05:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 47408 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 47408-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D47408.162301348931634 (code D ref 47408); Sun, 06 Jun 2021 21:05:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 47408-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jun 2021 21:04:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54016 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lpzwv-0008E9-Eu for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from plesklin7.if2.ehiweb.it ([79.98.45.17]:42121 helo=plesklin7.if1.ehiweb.it) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lpzwu-0008E1-5f for 47408-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from tucano.isti.cnr.it (tucano.isti.cnr.it [146.48.81.102]) by plesklin7.if1.ehiweb.it (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 25AE510032A; Sun, 6 Jun 2021 23:04:46 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <39f683d3-65d7-a7d9-18b1-cf6dfa7d254a@gmail.com> (fabrnicol@gmail.com) X-fingerprint: 4B02 6187 5C03 D6B1 2E31 7666 09DF 2DC9 BE21 6115 X-PPP-Message-ID: <20210606210446.13525.56128@plesklin7.if1.ehiweb.it> X-PPP-Vhost: potorti.it X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:208157 Archived-At: >> 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.