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#20629
25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files.
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Reported by: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 05:59:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #143 received at 20629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Cc: 20629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 03:09:54 +0300
>
> On 05/28/2015 07:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > But having just qualified tags is bad for accuracy, right?
>
> Maybe. Depends on things we would add to the Lisp code.
Can you elaborate? Is there a way to get the same accuracy and
completion without having both qualified and unqualified tags?
> > So do we have a decision here?
>
> If you want my opinion (please keep in mind: not an etags user),
> following in Exuberant Ctags's footsteps sounds best. Nobody ever got
> fired for doing that.
Yes, but I think if we change etags to create duplicate tags, we
should have this feature opt-out, unlike Exuberant, otherwise TAGS
created by default will be deficient with xref. Do you agree?
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