Re: etags-regen-mode: handling extensionless files

["Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> > We would probably also discuss etags' auto-detection and its list of default
>> > extensions, during the next release's development.

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
>> Okay, cool!  Should we have a bug to track this?
>
>We could, but adding an option to disable the Fortran fallback is so
>easy that I hope someone will just do it...

How about just going with the backward-incompatible change of disabling both fallbacks entirely?  In my opinion the whole fallback idea was already obsolete when I worked on it in 1993.

Today, I can't imagine a situation where it can be useful, that is, where you work on Fortran or C sources without an extension.

On the other hand, if you are working on thirty-years old sources, I argue you should use thirty-years old tools, rather than assuming that today's tool do the right thing on them.

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fp