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#26181
Remove etags
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Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:16:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: wontfix
Found in version 25.2
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #12 received at 26181 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On 20.03.2017 01:15, Glenn Morris wrote:
> I've never understood why Emacs includes a tags program.
> It's not part of the normal remit of a text editor.
FWIW, it has been handy when we introduced xref and started treating the
tags a bit more strictly.
> The situation has changed since then in that etags no longer has a
> maintainer (IIUC).
AFAIK Eli is the maintainer now. And it's handy to have for now, at
least until Universal Ctags is widely available across distributions,
handles all languages as well as etags does, and outputs correct entries
WRT implicit/explicit tag names (not 100% sure there is a problem, but
it's something that we had to fix in etags recently, at least).
Having all these conditions satisfied seems to be a .
> Having our own tags program means we can tweak it to work better for our
> own code; but conversely it would be better if our code Just Worked with
> standard (ie external) tools.
The latter might mean learning to use the ctags output (Vim format).
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