GNU bug report logs - #23400
Emacs 25.0.92.1: etags fails to handle file format generated by Exuberant Ctags 5.8 in etags emulation mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Weiner <rswgnu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:34:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, Robert Weiner <rswgnu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23400: Emacs 25.0.92.1: etags fails to handle file format generated by Exuberant Ctags 5.8 in etags emulation mode
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.
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