From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etags name collision. Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:19:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20220411124736.3qijvtearh6wlen7.ref@Ergus> <20220411124736.3qijvtearh6wlen7@Ergus> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15356"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ergus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 12 05:20:35 2022 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 1ne751-0003qY-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:20:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45016 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ne74z-0002of-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ne745-0001oK-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ne744-00046D-R8; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:19:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=3f4oEh1+LYeLw4CsgcEeiB82d+qx6QIdZNUY0X0e8fc=; b=HXFgzFw76PHt VaiB5/rFIcL1PU41254/VCP7YOSDbSlHy9/pRyT3vjXotCo05qu4oUSalYD8TvzmkhlvN2aUvSw+5 YdJLPxV4PGCVM1ASu73L4VlMB4roJrTWZNzm4vO/wi3zZXHeJhnE8HXDVhrI9v1L35cdEezAeY6Xa ReUgGXEMNW959qQNQxMwZr66PeT9YiXuUOGDyczEjIsdSrTTLR4GK+44982iSeLs7oIgMMLmtezuw J7kUag8Ut6vs4OVU4cJjgSWsv7iz6ejZIo1/sfOEelj7MieVy0hcZNUHQGnf8gCfHqIV3YigYQFZU sdKR4qf8BMgf/0/AMQtgoQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ne744-00074M-Cs; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:19:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20220411124736.3qijvtearh6wlen7@Ergus> (message from Ergus on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:47:36 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:288262 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 1) Why do we have etags+ctags executables so far they do more or less > the same work right?. What else would we do? > GREP had a similar issue some time ago > with egrep rgrep and similes; and they solved that adding command lines > to grep; why not to do the same? What does "adding command lines to grep" mean, concretely? It isn't clear to me. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)