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 20:37:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2vz19fw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y4kmdjmj.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> <87fv6nrypc.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432402699 25418 80.91.229.3 (23 May 2015 17:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 17:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pot@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 23 19:38:11 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 1YwDND-0005K2-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 19:38:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwDNC-0001eu-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 13:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwDN5-0001eb-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 13:38:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwDN2-0001kG-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 May 2015 13:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:42108) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YwDN1-0001k3-Ss; Sat, 23 May 2015 13:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NOT00B00BXD9900@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Sat, 23 May 2015 20:33:06 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NOT00DC8CR6WZ00@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Sat, 23 May 2015 20:33:06 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87fv6nrypc.fsf@igel.home> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 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:186772 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: pot@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 19:27:43 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > So etags is only required to produce approximately correct byte > > positions, and it does that well enough. > > If you want approximate positions then a line-column pair would be > better. How do you define a column count? Doesn't that require counting characters, rather than bytes?