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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288203 Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 04:38:38PM +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote: >On 11.04.2022 16:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>>2) Why do we create an executable with a name that is used by another >>>very wheel known program. >>It's the other way around: ctags was a very old Unix program, and >>Emacs developed a GNU version of that program. Universal ctags came >>much later. So you should ask them why did they decide to use a name >>that was already taken. >> > >Even the very old version of ctags that's distributed by most of >GNU/Linux distributions these days (Ctags 5.9~svn20110310) supports >more languages than etags. Like ~50% more languages. > >So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the our version of ctags was >never accepted as a true continuation or replacement. > >It's not like we're doing a particularly active development of it either. Do one thing and do it right...