From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#26181: Remove etags Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:34:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5a534b9a-14bf-ca3f-ae04-f37c6f66d399@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490092520 7098 195.159.176.226 (21 Mar 2017 10:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:35:20 +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 11:35:16 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 1cqH8A-0000wa-TX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:35:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqH8G-0001IH-NC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqH87-0001Fw-2W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqH82-0005w5-1a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cqH81-0005w0-VF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cqH81-0006Ke-Q2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:35:01 -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: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:35:01 +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=B26181.149009249124321 (code B ref 26181); Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:35:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 26181) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Mar 2017 10:34:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37248 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cqH7q-0006KD-VN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mx-all.isti.cnr.it ([194.119.192.19]:1656 helo=blade3.isti.cnr.it) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cqH7o-0006K1-JV for 26181@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from tucano.isti.cnr.it ([146.48.81.102]) by mx-all.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5-x6 #1251) with ESMTPSA id <01QC8FVGWOW0DSYRE1@mx-all.isti.cnr.it> for 26181@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:34:44 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from pot by tucano.isti.cnr.it with local (Exim 4.88) (envelope-from ) id 1cqH7j-0002Dt-Si; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:34:43 +0100 In-reply-to: <5a534b9a-14bf-ca3f-ae04-f37c6f66d399@yandex.ru> X-INSM-ip-source: 146.48.81.102 Auth Done X-fingerprint: 4B02 6187 5C03 D6B1 2E31 7666 09DF 2DC9 BE21 6115 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:130778 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov: >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). I agree. Generally speaking, etags requires little maintenance, being mature (sorry for not being able to provide even this little maintenance any more). Certainly less than having to manage an external tool. Glenn Morris: >> 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). Only if the above conditions are satisfied, plus having the same amount of information and not much bigger size.