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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 #209 received at 20629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On 05/30/2015 05:21 PM, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> Ex-ctags
> generates new-style ctags tags and can recurs directories, both of which
> would be easy to implement in Etags.
It seems the users interested in this feature go on to simply use 'ctags
-e'. I know I did, a while ago.
> When I compared them, more than ten years ago, the quality of generated
> tags were comparable. I don't know if things have changed in the
> meantime, but I don't think that they have changed a lot. The code of
> Ex-ctags is much more structured and, at a first sight, readable.
> However, I have never tried to go deeply into it, so I don't know if, in
> fact, it is really easier to manage.
Ex-ctags supports 41 language (by the last count at
http://ctags.sourceforge.net/languages.html, maybe more now), etags
supports 26.
The version at https://github.com/fishman/ctags also supports delegation
to external parsers (see the --xcmd argument and
https://github.com/fishman/ctags/blob/master/docs/xcmd.rst).
> So "merging" would mean, in fact, to have the communities managing them
> agree on one of them and improve it so that it becomes a superset of the
> other, then officielly declare the other one as deprecated.
Indeed.
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