From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 22:27:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83fv6n14cu.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <5560CE70.4040407@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432409284 25317 80.91.229.3 (23 May 2015 19:28:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 19:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pot@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 23 21:27:57 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 1YwF5Q-0004EF-Fm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 21:27:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38479 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwF5P-0000k1-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 15:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwF5I-0000jr-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 15:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwF5E-0003sy-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 15:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:35530) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwF5E-0003si-Oz; Sat, 23 May 2015 15:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NOT00B00HYU8200@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Sat, 23 May 2015 22:29:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NOT0051DI56HV50@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Sat, 23 May 2015 22:29:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5560CE70.4040407@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 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:186778 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 12:01:04 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: pot@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 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. I already said I didn't mind, although I don't think it's an improvement.