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

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at virtuozzo.com
Thu Feb 25 04:42:41 PST 2016


On 02/25/2016 03:39 PM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> On 25/02/2016 13:25, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> To keep compatibility with the previous target, I'd suggest to just add
> a new target 'etags' to build etags and keep 'tags' for ctags only.
> 
> If no one is against I'll build a patch for that.

Yup, I'm fine with this :)

-- Pavel



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