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etags of emacs 23.1 misses template specializations

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 5605 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, purchasebyemail1 <at> comcast.net
Subject: bug#5605: etags of emacs 23.1 misses template specializations
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:11:18 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:15:35 +0200
> Cc: 5605 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> "Bob" <purchasebyemail1 <at> comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > Run "etags" of emacs 23.1 on the attached "Foo.H" file . 
> >
> > The resulting TAGS file indicates "Foo.H" is empty.
> >
> > Seems to me it should show two definitions for the 2 specializations of `Worker`. 
> 
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
> the time.)
> 
> I don't know whether it should or not, but the behaviour of etags in
> Emacs 28 is still the same -- it produces an empty TAGS file.

'etags's support for templates is very rudimentary, it doesn't
currently identify a class if its name is followed by <foo,bar>.
Patches welcome.

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