From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 12:01:04 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5560CE70.4040407@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83y4kmdjmj.fsf@gnu.org> <831ti957wp.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp5s4uml.fsf@gnu.org> <555F740D.4030304@cs.ucla.edu> <837fs04egz.fsf@gnu.org> <87oalco1mg.fsf@igel.home> <83y4kg2yjc.fsf@gnu.org> <83wq002yct.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv6oo0h3.fsf@igel.home> <83vbfk2x9l.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnhcnym6.fsf@igel.home> <83pp5r3iij.fsf@gnu.org> <838ucf3dh8.fsf@gnu.org> <834mn339p2.fsf@gnu.org> <831ti7389n.fsf@gnu.org> <87oalbsgwl.fsf@igel.home> <83wpzz1qf8.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2vzsde4.fsf@igel.home> <83vbfj1k5c.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432407705 2143 80.91.229.3 (23 May 2015 19:01:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 19:01:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pot@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 23 21:01:35 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 1YwEfv-00072Z-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 21:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38448 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwEfu-0005jw-D5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 15:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwEfn-0005jo-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 15:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwEfj-0001iZ-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 15:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:40259) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwEfe-0001gj-81; Sat, 23 May 2015 15:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F5339E801C; Sat, 23 May 2015 12:01:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DZG58pOUgVHJ; Sat, 23 May 2015 12:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 81CEA39E8014; Sat, 23 May 2015 12:01:09 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <83vbfj1k5c.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:186775 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > etags is only required to produce approximately correct byte > positions, and it does that well enough. OK, but in that case the method I proposed in will do a better job (on all platforms) that what we have now, right? So it'd be an improvement, even if it's not perfect. Although Andreas's suggestion of switching to a byte column count would also be an improvement over what we have now, it'd require a change to the tags file format whereas the method I proposed would leave the file format unchanged.