Subject: Re: bug#23400: Emacs 25.0.92.1: etags fails to handle file format generated by Exuberant Ctags 5.8 in etags emulation mode

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:26:46 +0300

On 04/29/2016 07:28 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:

>> However, a call to list-tags fails on such a file because it includes 2
>> lines of file names per file rather than one.
>
> Why is this not a bug in Exuberant Ctags?

Indeed. And Ctags 5.8 is very old.

'ctags --version' reports 'Exuberant Ctags 5.9~svn20110310' on my 
machine, and I've never seen the described problem with it.