Re: Unable to use TAGS in xemacs

[Joseph Kiniry <kiniry@acm.org>]

Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@ericsson.com> writes:

>     "kiniry" == kiniry  <kiniry@acm.org> writes:
>
>     kiniry> A bit of clarification: exuberant ctags provides full
>     kiniry> support for all tags-based mechanisms in (x)emacs. 
>
> Hi,
>
> Does exuberant ctags support elisp these days? It's been a while, but
> I remember that a few years ago it did not get elisp right, and did
> not support the --regex option from emacs etags. I know this because
> Slackware Linux would give me exuberant ctags by default, and it just
> did not cut it for me because it barfed on elisp, and my --regex
> options for python did not work. If it's changed, I'd use it again.
>
> Cheers!
> Shyamal

Hello Shyamal,

I do not use exuberant ctags with elisp or Python, but the ChangeLog
reflects a number of fixes wrt the support for these two languages.
See http://ctags.sourceforge.net/news.html for more details.

Joe