GNU bug report logs - #47408
Emacs etags support for Mercury [v0.2]

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Message #51 received at 47408-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
To: fabrice nicol <fabrnicol <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 47408-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47408: Etags support for Mercury [v0.5]
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 23:04:45 +0200

>> Yes, unless I am mistaken, ctags has no practical use outside of the
>>> C-family language domain.
>> That's difficult to tell for me.  However, etags provides ctags support
>> for all languages it knows about.  I may be missing something, but I
>> think Mercury would be the first exception.  If that's the case, maybe
>> it would be worth  adding a comment telling so.
>
>ctags only differs from etags by the fact that its output is 
>Vim-compatible. But it so happens that Mercury has superior in-built 
>support for Vim tagging (the core team use Vim). So ctags would not 
>actually be used by users with Vim-compatibility requirements, they 
>would just use Mercury tagging on Vim.

Maybe adding this info in a comment inside etags' code would be useful
for future maintainers.

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