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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: fabrice nicol <fabrnicol <at> gmail.com>
Cc: pot <at> gnu.org, 47408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47408: Etags support for Mercury [v0.5]
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:13:45 +0300

> Cc: 47408-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> From: fabrice nicol <fabrnicol <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 22:49:19 +0200
> 
> > 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.

What do we lose if we make Mercury support active in ctags mode?  Do
we even need to add any code for that?

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