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Document speedbar etags compatibility mode better

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From: Eric Ludlam <ericludlam <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "Eric M. Ludlam" <zappo <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <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 16:16:45 -0400

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Sounds good.  Thanks.

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 2:37 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > 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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