GNU bug report logs - #51102
Document speedbar etags compatibility mode better

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 21:37:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 51102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Ludlam <ericludlam <at> gmail.com>
Cc: zappo <at> gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, 51102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51102: [PATCH] Make speedbar XEmacs compatibility mode
 obsolete (etags)
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:37:40 +0300

> From: Eric Ludlam <ericludlam <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:57:58 -0400
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 51102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 
> 	"Eric M. Ludlam" <zappo <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Yes, that could be, though my recollection is that the opposite was more common back in the day.  I don't
> know what the current balance might be.
> 
> I spent a lot of time pulling in a wide array of taggers to solve this type of problem.  After speedbar I switched
> to putting them in semantic tags instead which had more utility than the more focused speedbar feature
> while still working fine in speedbar.

OK, thanks.  So I think we should leave the etags support as an
optional feature, but remove the reference to XEmacs from the doc
string of the defcustom.
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