[CRIU] [PATCHv2 1/2] build/nmk: use TAGS instead ETAGS and CTAGS

Cyrill Gorcunov gorcunov at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 03:15:48 PST 2016


On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 02:10:40PM +0300, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> On 02/25/2016 02:01 PM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> >On 25/02/2016 11:26, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> >>Impact: do not use both, do not try to use one of them without a check.
> >Why not using both ?
> >
> >The man mentions:
> >
> >"The  etags  program is used to create a tag table file, in a format un‐
> >derstood by emacs(1); the ctags program is used to create a similar ta‐
> >ble  in a format understood by vi(1)."
> >
> >Would you please elaborate ?
> I guess, people mostly use one of them: vi/vim or emacs.
> As I see it: if you prefer emacs, you practically never launch
> vi to do any thing. And vice versa.

Nope. I use both :) So I guess better to stick with backward
compatibility.

make tags --> generate ctags
make TAGS --> generate etags

if noone against.


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