From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etags name collision. Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:36:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87o816cnzi.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <20220411124736.3qijvtearh6wlen7.ref@Ergus> <20220411124736.3qijvtearh6wlen7@Ergus> <83pmln69n0.fsf@gnu.org> <20220411135259.zqrlngj6lmpgbsni@Ergus> <83ilrf6779.fsf@gnu.org> <20220411142519.vnbr63lfpyuqpw2w@Ergus> <20220412104823.xfquehpmoghektkt@Ergus> <87ilrewp5s.fsf@yahoo.com> <472050e5-8dbc-27bd-3ac6-98d80d8fa838@yandex.ru> <878rsawnga.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18645"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6OopZBQEAr24nC0tH4K+Y3yvYkE= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 12 17:37:39 2022 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 1neIaI-0004i1-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:37:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40638 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1neIaH-00081q-Bn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40678) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1neIZh-0007I0-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:58426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1neIZg-0005jp-6E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1neIZa-0003cS-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:36:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:288307 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > On 12.04.2022 16:45, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >> What I think I said was that ctags has a standardized format by POSIX, >> this is what Emacs ctags (and BSD ctags) output; Exuberant ctags does >> not output this format. > > Wikipedia says: > > Extended Ctags > This is the format used by Vim's Exuberant Ctags and Universal Ctags. > These programs can generate an original ctags file format or an > extended format that attempts to retain backward compatibility. > > Universal Ctags's manual says: > > u-ctags, e-ctags u-ctags is the default output format extending the > Exuberant Ctags output format > (e-ctags). > --format=1 and --format=2 are same as --output-format=e-ctags and > --output-format=u-ctags respectively. > See man page tags (5) for details. The difference between u-ctags and > e-ctags are marked as “EX- > CEPTION”. Additional changes in Universal Ctags are described in > Changes to the tags file format. > > Somebody should experiment with the --format flag, but if there is > indeed no option for the original format, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags should be updated. FWIW: AFAIK Exhuberant Ctags is unmaintained. Now the action happens in Universal Ctags.