Re: Why Emacs uses etags when all other editors use ctags?

[Andrey Lisin]

That makes sense. Thank you for the answer!

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Regards,
Andrey Lisin





> On 17 Nov 2014, at 07:43, Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
> Andrey Lisin <andrey.lisin@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> really why? Are there any advantages of etags format over standard
>> ctags? Is there any reason to increase the entropy?
>> 
>> Could anyone explain it? :)
> 
> Ctags is very VI specific.  The portion of each tag that takes the
> editor to the right place in the code is a command for the ex program.
> ("Ex" is a part of VI originally it was a separate program but it isn't
> in modern VI-like editors).  A valid Ctags program could put all sorts
> of things in that field.  Instead Emacs uses the number of bytes from
> the start of the code file.
> 
> BR,
> Robert Thorpe