From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gtags/ctags/etags/cscope support? Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:00:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83y355o1q8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190323160624.gz5fducjm3thrb2b@Ergus> <83a7hlpmkn.fsf@gnu.org> <20190323184544.utmrpin5rkzw56i3@Ergus> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="100397"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ergus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 20:00:57 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7lt1-000PxZ-0Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:00:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7lsz-0003dR-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:00:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7lso-0003d4-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7lsm-0000Sf-U2; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1420 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7lsc-0006nh-PN; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:00:34 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190323184544.utmrpin5rkzw56i3@Ergus> (message from Ergus on Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:45:44 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:234663 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:45:44 +0100 > From: Ergus > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >It would indeed be interesting to have a comparison table of features > >in one place. Then we could try to figure out what we want to > >support. I'm guessing no single tool in its current form will do. > > > The comparison already exist; independently of how accurate it is. There > is a link in the global's page: > > https://github.com/oracle/opengrok/wiki/Comparison-with-Similar-Tools That doesn't sound too useful to me (does "ctags" there allude to our etags?), e.g. it doesn't say which languages are supported. And I'm not really sure I understand how that comparison will help you in your quest. > The other point is that in case of using tramp it is theoretically > possible to use a remote tags file with the local executable but I am > not "lispy" enough yet to implement such a thing myself from scratch. Doesn't visit-tags-table support remote file names? If it does, you just visit TAGS that lives on the remote machine, and then the "normal" etags commands will just work.