From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrey Lisin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why Emacs uses etags when all other editors use ctags? Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:14 +0600 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415815262 31532 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2014 18:01:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:01:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 12 19:00:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1XocDv-00009j-N3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:00:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XocDv-0000dL-Br for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:00:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50689) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XocDe-0000ct-8V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:00:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XocDW-0005dL-QD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XocDW-0005cv-6o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:00:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XocDT-0008KL-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:00:28 +0100 Original-Received: from 188.232.201.176 ([188.232.201.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:00:27 +0100 Original-Received: from andrey.lisin by 188.232.201.176 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:00:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 6 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.232.201.176 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fauQZ9+s5r4kwsqoWmSh5hA0Sfs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100901 Archived-At: 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? :)