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

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at virtuozzo.com
Thu Feb 25 04:25:08 PST 2016


On 02/25/2016 02:15 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> 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

Typing smth in command line in capital letters is annoying :(
Do ctags and etags generate different filenames?

> if noone against.



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