GNU bug report logs - #38511
etags seems to be confused by macros

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 20:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 38511 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 38511 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38511: etags seems to be confused by macros
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:30:10 +0100

>I read the documentation and didn't understand how the regex feature
>would help. It seems to be useful to identify other constructs which
>you'd like tagged (such as the DEFVAR macro in the Emacs source), not
>transform the source in some way. Put another way, I need a
>"find/replace" sort of feature, not just a "find" feature.

Try this one, and let us know if it satisfies your needs:

etags --regex='/Py_LOCAL_INLINE[ \t]*(.*)\n[^(]+(\([^)]+\)/m'

It assumes that Py_LOCAL_INLINE and its arguments all stay on a single
line, but it can be easily changed to waive this assumption.

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