Re: Ask etags to stop language auto-detection from falling back to Fortran and C?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 1/12/18 11:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I want etags to detect the language, but without the ridiculous
> > fallback.
>
> I don't understand: if the file's language can be detected by means
> known to etags, then it will never get to the fallbacks.

OK, to *try to* detect the language.

> It will only
> try the fallbacks if all the means to detect the language failed.  So
> what do you mean by "detect, but without the fallbacks"?

I'm saying I don't want the fallbacks. If you've failed to detect the 
language based on the file extension or the sharp-bang, stop, don't try 
to parse the file with something that will most likely get wrong results.

> It will, for the files following --language=none on the command line
> (but not for those that come before this switch).  But if the
> extension and/or sharp-bang are in the file, the detection should not
> have failed,

It does if etags is unfamiliar with the file's language.