From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#26181: Remove etags Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:15:18 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489965374 13207 195.159.176.226 (19 Mar 2017 23:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:16:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) To: 26181@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 20 00:16:09 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk3R-0002SS-0y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:16:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk3W-00062n-WE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:16:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk3P-00062h-7l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk3O-0006wG-5c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:16:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:37432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk3O-0006vm-1y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:16:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk3N-00027m-Ro for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:16:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:16:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 26181 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: submit@debbugs.gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.14899653288115 (code B ref -1); Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:16:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Mar 2017 23:15:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35631 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk2p-00026o-Ql for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58945) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk2o-00026b-Id for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk2i-0006X6-Gs for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51949) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk2i-0006X0-Dw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cpk2h-0005fp-1t; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:15:19 -0400 X-Spook: Armani Bin Laden Biological weapon Nigeria MARTA Indigo X-Ran: [NRvFWF4TA[5f&(>z2@dfFA9f<,rsb=`vH`#HP84GaRZM29d^-8Ibuu8*JNkeh.l<)P4A< X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:130740 Archived-At: Package: emacs Severity: wishlist Version: 25.2 I've never understood why Emacs includes a tags program. It's not part of the normal remit of a text editor. This was previously discussed: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00075.html It sounds like the answer is "historical reasons". The situation has changed since then in that etags no longer has a maintainer (IIUC). I would like to suggest removing etags so that the time saved can be spent on other things. Having our own tags program means we can tweak it to work better for our own code; but conversely it would be better if our code Just Worked with standard (ie external) tools.