From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Etags.el Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:14:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83zja6b3tc.fsf@gnu.org> <54A24079.4020902@yandex.ru> <54A2FF47.6010207@yandex.ru> <54A86135.7080004@yandex.ru> <54A90002.7080009@gmx.at> <54A9C3FB.7000602@yandex.ru> <54AA3881.3080304@gmx.at> <54ABBB47.7010603@yandex.ru> <837fszx7iy.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp6pwqnw.fsf@gnu.org> <553EB74A.4030208@yandex.ru> <83618gwbb1.fsf@gnu.org> <83sibjszi7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430345694 13190 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2015 22:14:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 30 00:14:45 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 1YnaFc-0004HU-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:14:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnaFb-0008DT-1f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnaFO-0008BA-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnaFN-0007Ij-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:34861) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnaFJ-0007IV-Un; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:14:21 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUFAGvvdVS4rw4V/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRjAMDXgkBAgECgz4Dg3AEo2OEWA X-IPAS-Result: AgUFAGvvdVS4rw4V/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRjAMDXgkBAgECgz4Dg3AEo2OEWA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,557,1422939600"; d="scan'208";a="117841421" Original-Received: from 184-175-14-21.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.14.21]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 29 Apr 2015 18:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4D0A04DCE; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:14:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83sibjszi7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:52:32 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:186044 Archived-At: > And as mentioned back then, until something like this is coded, this > discussion is just theoretical. Agreed. I don't use etags.el so I'm not highly motivated, and when I've had to look at its code, I've found it has a lot of historical baggage, which makes it more painful than necessary to do most things (e.g. the redundancy between tags-table-list and tags-file-name). Stefan