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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows |
Date: | Sat, 23 May 2015 12:01:04 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
etags is only required to produce approximately correct byte positions, and it does that well enough.
OK, but in that case the method I proposed in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-05/msg00657.html> will do a better job (on all platforms) that what we have now, right? So it'd be an improvement, even if it's not perfect.
Although Andreas's suggestion of switching to a byte column count would also be an improvement over what we have now, it'd require a change to the tags file format whereas the method I proposed would leave the file format unchanged.
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