From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20629: 25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files. Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 02:48:57 -0400 Message-ID: <1nvbfbri92.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <555EC552.5010600@swipnet.se> <83lhgczo16.fsf@gnu.org> <55639175.9090005@yandex.ru> <83fv6kysjf.fsf@gnu.org> <556447EF.3050103@yandex.ru> <83bnh7z8c5.fsf@gnu.org> <5564C2C7.5050909@yandex.ru> <837frvywfn.fsf@gnu.org> <55650812.60909@yandex.ru> <831ti2yu1a.fsf@gnu.org> <5565E28A.5040507@yandex.ru> <83wpzuxbtd.fsf@gnu.org> <5565E8AB.5020107@yandex.ru> <83r3q2xa3q.fsf@gnu.org> <5566583F.7020503@yandex.ru> <83h9qxxvo4.fsf@gnu.org> <5566EC49.8010907@yandex.ru> <837frsycly.fsf@gnu.org> <5567351E.7020006@yandex.ru> <83zj4owthp.fsf@gnu.org> <5567AE52.1000600@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432882162 9574 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2015 06:49:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 06:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20629@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 29 08:49:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1YyE6Q-000594-4O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 08:49:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyE6P-0007n9-IQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57973) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyE6L-0007jM-2b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyE6J-0000qL-DS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyE6J-0000q4-Av for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YyE6I-0000og-Kb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:49:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 06:49:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20629 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20629-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20629.14328821413131 (code B ref 20629); Fri, 29 May 2015 06:49:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20629) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 May 2015 06:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59951 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YyE6H-0000oQ-3h for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:36173 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YyE6F-0000oI-6Q for 20629@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YyE6D-0004Vz-5o; Fri, 29 May 2015 02:48:57 -0400 X-Spook: Etacs computer terrorism Indigo Project Monarch data X-Ran: 4[V_6NdX?i&6TQY^~p6Ew^)Ezo2jw-;@&pbg*9]ZlYQd_z]6M~=k-XbC]NAY&{oF9O-z@% X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <5567AE52.1000600@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Fri, 29 May 2015 03:09:54 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:103288 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov wrote: > If you want my opinion (please keep in mind: not an etags user), > following in Exuberant Ctags's footsteps sounds best. I'm not one either, but I've been meaning to ask: why is etags in Emacs? It does a generic job that isn't specific to Emacs, and other programs that do this exist. https://github.com/fishman/ctags seems active and has an Emacs developer (Masatake YAMATO) as a contributor. The question was asked before: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00075.html It's my (superficial) impression that etags hasn't progressed much since then. The majority of the changes seem to have been generic code-cleanup stuff. Is it that etags recognizes Emacs-specific C code that ctags does not? My only motivation for asking is that it's good to reduce the number of things that need to be maintained in Emacs, where possible.