Subject: Re: bug#26181: Remove etags

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:39:41 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:15:18 -0400
> 
> I would like to suggest removing etags so that the time saved can be
> spent on other things.

What is considered a replacement?  The two I know about, GNU Global
and Exuberant ctags, don't have support for some of the languages we
support in etags (e.g., Ada).  And Exuberant ctags seems not to be
developed anymore(?).