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From: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
To: fabrice nicol <fabrnicol@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Etags support for the Mercury programming language [continued]
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:23:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lOzjX-00GjV8-Hj@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <315d5da3-09b4-da9c-dfb0-e53fe88f3ead@gmail.com> (fabrnicol@gmail.com)

>You will note an unconventional move.  I was daring enough to add two 
>options to 'etags' (-m and -M) to implement some kind of backward 
>compatibility with Prolog etags support (based on tagging definitions, 
>-M) while allowing a simpler, more idiomatic approach that focuses on 
>tagging  Mercury declarations only (-m).  Backward compatibility is 
>legitimate and quite useful, but having it on board all the time may be 
>cumbersome for some use cases.   Hence the 'behavioral' options I added.

I fear this is too intrusive, but easy to amend.

Instead of -M, youi should use --declarations

Instead of -m, you should use --no-defines

In both cases, the description of the options should be augmented with
their Mercury use.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-24  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-22  2:02 etags support for the Mercury programming language fabrice nicol
2021-03-22 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-24  7:42 ` Etags support for the Mercury programming language [continued] fabrice nicol
2021-03-24  8:25   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-24  9:23   ` Francesco Potortì [this message]

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