From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, tom@tromey.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
john@yates-sheets.org
Subject: Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 03:35:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67d2bd44-032d-f014-338f-387a07503d9c@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834ki82hbh.fsf@gnu.org>
On 19.02.2021 17:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> - ...We add a setting for "etags vendor" and two different code paths
>> anyway. In this case the '-L' compatibility will be moot as well, adding
>> this extra flag - or not - can easily depend on the "vendor" option.
>
> It sounds like a fully compatible code is not really possible, so some
> test to detect which etags/ctags program will run, with the necessary
> code tailored to each of them, seems like the best COA in the long
> run. It's a bit more coding, but the differences are fairly minor, so
> I don't expect that to be too hard.
It's one more source of bugs, because I would personally be using only
one of the code paths on the regular basis, and the same might be true
for emacs-devel regulars who might try it out.
Not too serious a problem, but a problem nevertheless. It also requires
us to choose some robust check for which version we're working with.
> I also don't mind adding -L, but from what you say it will not be a
> complete solution anyway, so what do we gain?
I don't have a strong preference and can go with either approach.
But in the long run, it might be good for us to have a better level of
compatibility with 'ctags -e': less user confusion, for one thing. And
for best results, I think we should approach that compatibility from our
side (if we do at all), rather than wait for them, because older
versions of third-party software will be around for a long time, but we
can more or less be sure that Emacs comes with the latest version of etags.
FWIW, -L plus a compatibility layer for --regex (translating
--regex-lang=abc to --regex={lang}abc) should suffice for etags-regen
for the near future.
And support for --langmap, maybe (does etags have a counterpart for it
at all?).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-20 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-14 3:36 Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 3:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 15:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 16:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-01-09 21:49 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10 13:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 16:56 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10 19:39 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10 23:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 23:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 23:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-11 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 1:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 4:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-12 16:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-12 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 16:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 17:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 22:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-13 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-13 15:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-13 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-16 3:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-16 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 16:58 ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10 17:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 23:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-11 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 1:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18 23:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-19 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-19 14:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-19 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 1:35 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2021-02-20 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 20:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-20 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-20 21:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-20 21:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-21 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 20:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 19:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 1:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
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