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bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:41:42 +0200 |
> Cc: 22947@debbugs.gnu.org, rogers@modulargenetics.com
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 03:08:13 +0200
>
> On 03/11/2016 04:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > I said "etags", not "emacs".
>
> I don't think this implies any considerable amount of work in etags
> either. I could be wrong, of course.
I just said that etags never had these features, so we are talking
about an enhancement, not a bugfix.
> >> We can perfectly well choose to support this feature only for a few
> >> languages. It's better than nothing.
> >
> > I'm not sure "better than nothing" is good enough.
>
> I'm not buying the argument that doing the right thing is somehow
> undesirable because we can't afford to do the perfect thing right now.
I'm not selling it.
> > Anyway, I don't really understand what we are arguing about.
>
> I'm arguing that -Q should output both qualified and unqualified tags,
> so that the result is actually useful.
>
> You seem to be arguing towards -Q preserving the previous behavior of
> the parser, _in certain languages_, no matter the usefulness of the
> resulting tag files.
No, I'm just saying this is a new feature whose implementation costs
are unknown to me at this point.
> >> Ultimately, it's your choice, of course.
> >
> > Volunteers are free to beat me to it, if they have an itch to scratch.
>
> If you've made a deliberate choice, it doesn't seem like a patch from a
> volunteer that would make a different choice is likely to be accepted.
I've made no choices, except not to work on this today. I don't
understand why you think I'm against adding such a feature, if done
cleanly. It's almost a reason to take offense, since I never said
anything that could be interpreted as such an intent.
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, (continued)
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/10
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/10
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/11
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/11
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/12
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/12
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/12
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/12
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Bob Rogers, 2016/03/10
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Bob Rogers, 2016/03/11
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Bob Rogers, 2016/03/11
- bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/11