From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 26181@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26181: Remove etags
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:45:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <898d25af-76ae-279b-8b90-4fd60ebed604@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837f3iwsa9.fsf@gnu.org>
On 21.03.2017 17:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> The latter might mean learning to use the ctags output (Vim format).
>
> You mean, if we want to support tools beyond Universal ctags?
Not what I meant.
> (Because the latter supports Emacs-compatible TAGS output.)
It officially does, but if etags is no more, the TAGS format has no
reference implementation, and thus becomes less relevant and harder to
conform to.
The Vim tags format is clearly more important to a program like ctags,
so we might want to get to supporting that. It's also more rich, IIUC.
> Yes, if
> we want to support other tools, we'd need to extend etags.el or rely
> on external packages for parsing their tags tables. E.g. GNU Global
> doesn't support TAGS format even as an option, AFAIK.
True. For Global, I think the vast majority of code in etags.el becomes
irrelevant.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-21 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-19 23:15 bug#26181: Remove etags Glenn Morris
2017-03-20 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-20 20:35 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-21 9:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-03-21 10:34 ` Francesco Potortì
2017-03-21 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-21 16:45 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2017-03-29 5:14 ` John Wiegley
2017-04-03 20:54 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-04 16:20 ` Richard Stallman
2022-02-08 6:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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