GNU bug report logs - #76322
Make ctags a thin wrapper around etags

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 76322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#76322: Make ctags a thin wrapper around etags
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:14:13 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> More radically, Emacs could also stop installing etags, and advise
>> people to run ctags -e instead, where this is the other ctags.
>
> To this I object, since the master source of the format of the TAGS
> files must be in Emacs, and what better to document this format than
> to maintain and distribute etags the program.

As a counter-point, we distribute parsers for quite a few formats where
the master source of the format is not in emacs.git.  They don't usually
have the same legacy as ctags, admittedly.

How about adding a --without-ctags flag, for those of us that never have
a need for it?

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