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25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20629: 25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files.
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 02:48:57 -0400

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> If you want my opinion (please keep in mind: not an etags user),
> following in Exuberant Ctags's footsteps sounds best.

I'm not one either, but I've been meaning to ask: why is etags in Emacs?
It does a generic job that isn't specific to Emacs, and other programs
that do this exist.

https://github.com/fishman/ctags seems active and has an Emacs developer
(Masatake YAMATO) as a contributor.

The question was asked before:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-01/msg00075.html

It's my (superficial) impression that etags hasn't progressed much since
then. The majority of the changes seem to have been generic code-cleanup
stuff.

Is it that etags recognizes Emacs-specific C code that ctags does not?

My only motivation for asking is that it's good to reduce the number of
things that need to be maintained in Emacs, where possible.

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