From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:33:55 +0200 Message-ID: <838s7k4ft8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <779a6328-9ca5-202a-25a2-b270c66fe6dd@yandex.ru> <8fc5e96c-ebb8-c668-9b2a-c7c4ee54c0b9@yandex.ru> <83r1mwltob.fsf@gnu.org> <0bee9ab4-46bc-b6fd-97b6-e26cc80f1610@yandex.ru> <731c1b21-b3e9-89fe-3751-9c2a528adfba@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31935"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, tom@tromey.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 09:34:19 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1lD1Ex-0008Bq-6Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:34:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57240 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD1Ew-0006ce-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD1EP-0006CM-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:33:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD1EN-0000pZ-K5; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:33:43 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3280 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lD1EN-0005LC-0v; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:33:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <731c1b21-b3e9-89fe-3751-9c2a528adfba@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 19 Feb 2021 01:26:43 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:265211 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, tom@tromey.com, john@yates-sheets.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 01:26:43 +0200 > > On 07.01.2021 17:56, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > > - A change to lib-src/etags.c which implements handing of '-L' flag, for > > compatibility with ctags. > > How do you feel about cherry-picking this particular change to the > emacs-27 release branch? I don't mind in general, but: . this lacks the proper documentation (we should at least say that -L is for compatibility with ...) and NEWS item . it should have a corresponding long-option name, and thus should be reflected in longopts[] > Or if you don't, how do you feel about that code change at all? One > alternative for me is to try to support both 'ctags -e' and 'etags', > with some ad-hoc version detection, I guess. Then the change won't be > needed. Sorry, I don't think I follow. Can you elaborate on this?