From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new command to apply changes to lines referenced in compilation buffers Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 05:34:40 +0200 Message-ID: <8335zysecv.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34622"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 22 04:35:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1krYSl-0008tn-NK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 04:35:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52858 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krYSk-0002nD-Oh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:35:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krYRv-00028x-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51013) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krYRv-0004ch-KF; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1996 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1krYRr-0006SJ-5c; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:34:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= on Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:43:47 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261458 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Martín > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:43:47 +0100 > > Today I thought about the following use case: Imagine a user that is > working in a C codebase and wants to rename some function without using > a TAGS file (or maybe the language is not C and there's no good TAGS > support for it). There are very few languages that etags doesn't support. C definitely isn't the only language it does support. Try "etags --help". And I don't think I understand the rationale for trying not to use TAGS. Can you explain why you want to avoid that?