RE: IDE versus emacs

[Doug Lewan]

I recently discovered that CYGWIN delivers "Exuberant Ctags" (Yes, etags too.) 
and it is used instead of emacs' etags. (GPL, available at 
http://ctags.sourceforge.net.)

Exuberant Ctags can be extended to look for other things via regular 
expression. It is a wonderful thing!

I can now look for tags in my shell code to by running: 
    etags --langdef=shell --regex-shell='/function 
[_[:alnum:]]+/[_[:alnum:]]+/' --language-force=shell
(Unfortunate side-effect: That can also pick up comments, so I also have to fix 
things:
    sed -n -e '/#/d' -ep < TAGS > TTT && mv TTT TAGS
Oh, well.)
Shell programming is suddenly almost pleasant!

,Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Vagn Johansen
> Sent: Saturday, 2012 October 06 03:57
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: IDE versus emacs
>  
> Is the TAGS format extensible so a new fields could be added?
> 
> It would useful if the identifiers were tagged (pun intended) with the
> the "type": class, method, static function, constant etc.
> 
> For example find-tag could then support a customized
> find-first/find-next order (eg. class first).
> 
> You could also use it to make the function guess-class-name-at-point. I
> have previously needed this for my tempo expansions for C++ member
> functions.
> 
> --
> Vagn Johansen