From: Andrey Lisin <alisin@crystalnix.com>
To: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why Emacs uses etags when all other editors use ctags?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:50:36 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23B2C49B-14EF-4ACC-9187-161B8F8928E0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a93q1u03.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
That makes sense. Thank you for the answer!
--
Regards,
Andrey Lisin
> On 17 Nov 2014, at 07:43, Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> Andrey Lisin <andrey.lisin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> really why? Are there any advantages of etags format over standard
>> ctags? Is there any reason to increase the entropy?
>>
>> Could anyone explain it? :)
>
> Ctags is very VI specific. The portion of each tag that takes the
> editor to the right place in the code is a command for the ex program.
> ("Ex" is a part of VI originally it was a separate program but it isn't
> in modern VI-like editors). A valid Ctags program could put all sorts
> of things in that field. Instead Emacs uses the number of bytes from
> the start of the code file.
>
> BR,
> Robert Thorpe
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2014-11-12 18:00 Why Emacs uses etags when all other editors use ctags? Andrey Lisin
2014-11-17 1:43 ` Robert Thorpe
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