Subject: Re: bug#51102: [PATCH] Make speedbar XEmacs compatibility mode obsolete (etags)

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 00:08:06 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> I also don't understand the "Etags support is not as robust as imenu
> support" part of the doc string.

The author seems to have held the opinion that etags is not relevant on
Emacs:

;;; Tag Management -- etags  (old XEmacs compatibility part)

That comment dates to 1998, when speedbar.el was first imported.