Re: [PATCH 2/3] lisp/progmodes/etags.el don't (forward-char) as it's overriden next line

[Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>]

В Вт, мар 19, 2019 at 12:45 ДП (AM), Konstantin Kharlamov 
<hi-angel@yandex.ru> написал:
> 
> 
> В Пн, мар 18, 2019 at 11:16 ПП (PM), Eli Zaretskii 
> <eliz@gnu.org> написал:
>>>  Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:15:27 +0300
>>>  From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
>>>  Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>> 
>>>  > Can you provide those additional details?
>>> 
>>>  I'm not sure what additional details you want.
>> 
>> OK, let me ask more specific questions:
>> 
>>   1. Why was the amount of whitespace in the tags table different 
>> from
>>      that in the source file?
> 
> It's a bug in anjuta-tags
> 
>>   2. What command(s) was/were used to produce the tags table?
> 
> anjuta-tags -e file.vala
> 
>>   3. Why are the issue and you talking about "trailing whitespace",
>>      while the difference between Expected and Actual in the issue is
>>      in leading whitespace, not trailing whitespace?
> 
> Sorry for confusion here, I was imagining: given a string, whitespace 
> may "trail" on both sides of it. But I'm not a native speaker.
> 
>>>  Let's make it the other way around: please, provide any language
>>>  example, where having the trailing space may be significant for
>>>  unambigiously determining the tag.
>> 
>> etags.el doesn't understand any languages, that is the job of the
>> program that produces the tags table.  etags.el just follows the 
>> rules
>> for the format of tags in the tags table.  I don't know about 
>> trailing
>> whitespace, but tags for HTML files surely include embedded
>> whitespace, for example.
>> 
>> So once again, I suggest to focus on the particular problem you had,
>> because I'd like to find a solution for that without making
>> backward-incompatible changes in behavior of etags.el.
> 
> Okay, whatever. I get your position. Though I disagree, but we 
> clearly have different priorities here: while I'm focusing on a Emacs 
> user, you're focusing on technical correctness. I doubt this 
> discussion can move anywhere further, let's leave it at it.
> 
> Can my 1-st patch from the series be merged though?

Oh, wait, I noticed despite going to a tag I'm getting "Rerun etags" 
message. Something is wrong, let me investigate.