[csw-maintainers] ctags alternate proposition

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Fri Mar 22 20:11:51 CET 2013


Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:

> Jan Holzhueter <jh at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> Am 22.03.13 09:57, schrieb pfelecan:
>> > CSWctags supplies the "Exuberant ctags" which is compatible with
>> > the etags/ctags provided also by CSWemacs-bin-common.
>> > 
>> > Currently, both packages override the collision on  the
>> > /opt/csw/bin/ctags component.
>> > 
>> > I think that the time to use alternatives has come. Thus, I
>> > implemented the needed mechanism for the one provided by the
>> > package under my maintenanceship and kindly invite the maintainer
>> > of CSWctags to implement his part.
>>
>> We have a dopple package here. Since we also do have CSWectags.
>> Which looks like the same package.
>> I would recommand to just remove the CSWctags package.
>
> ctags is a program that belongs to the "vi" source - not to the emacs source if 
> that matters....

Sure, the Emacs delivered ctags is based on its "etags" and it's
compatible with the ol' vi's ctags. "ectags" is a advanced,
multi-lingual tag extractor. Anyhow, this is why I provided an
alternative for Emacs's ctags. If we have vim, the same should apply.
-- 
Peter


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