From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: IDE Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:35:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83a8r440sz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83bnc7tavr.fsf@gnu.org> <5618C92A.3040207@yandex.ru> <83a8rrt9ag.fsf@gnu.org> <5618D376.1080700@yandex.ru> <831td3t62e.fsf@gnu.org> <561A6199.1020901@cumego.com> <561B9D87.70504@yandex.ru> <87vb9wcpw9.fsf@esperi.org.uk> <83eggkwdgh.fsf@gnu.org> <83611ww5uc.fsf@gnu.org> <83si4xbi2m.fsf@gnu.org> <878u6pcs74.fsf@igel.home> <83io5tbcye.fsf@gnu.org> <87si4xbada.fsf@igel.home> <83d1w1asu9.fsf@gnu.org> <87si4w43ei.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445970937 17899 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2015 18:35:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:35:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sb@dod.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 19:35:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr95k-00015R-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:35:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr95j-00073F-D2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr95Y-0006sX-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr95T-0003Xg-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:35509) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr95T-0003XB-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWW00A0061HNJ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:35:10 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWW00AJC6AML460@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:35:10 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87si4w43ei.fsf@igel.home> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192747 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: sb@dod.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:39:17 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Andreas Schwab > >> Cc: sb@dod.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:14:41 +0100 > >> > >> Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> > >> > If they do, they will not be able to distinguish between the > >> > definition and the references. All the values are equal. > >> > >> A TAGS file does not know anything. It is just an index, whose > >> interpretation is up to the application. > > > > The application just interprets what's in the file. If the file > > doesn't provide any indication that one of the entries is a > > definition, the application will not know which one is. > > There are producers and consumers. They just have to agree on the > format. I was talking about the _existing_ format. It goes without saying that it can be (almost trivially) extended to support additional functionality. But then it won't be TAGS format, strictly speaking.