Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 20:46:04 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> >> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 19:27:43 +0200
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > So etags is only required to produce approximately correct byte
> >> > positions, and it does that well enough.
> >> 
> >> If you want approximate positions then a line-column pair would be
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> better.
> >
> > How do you define a column count?
> 
> It doesn't matter.

If you count bytes from the beginning of line, then yes, the accuracy
should be better that way.  However, I wonder whether the format of
TAGS, which assumes file offsets, is a de-facto standard by now.