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From: | Konstantin Kharlamov |
Subject: | Re: gtags/ctags/etags/cscope support? |
Date: | Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:48:04 +0300 |
В Сб, мар 23, 2019 at 7:06 ПП (PM), Ergus <address@hidden> написал:
Hi all: Some days ago Stefan was talking about ebrowse but now it makes me think.Between global/gtags/ctags/etags/cscope which of them has been (|| willbe) better supported in emacs. Because there are many packages around but I can't estimate their popularity.
AFAIK ctags and etags share the same format. There's a lot of different apps that generate TAGS file, e.g. etags, ctags, anjuta-tags; then there were some old unsupported ctags, but nowadays by ctags usually implied "universal ctags" which is the maintained version of older ctags.
I can't answer for the rest of them. But one thing I can tell: tags stuff is very popular because it allows to share some infrastructure with Vim. Ofc formats are a bit different, but not very much, and usually tagging apps can produce both Emacs and Vim formats.
To add even more confusion: nowadays there's an open LSP standard, and I think it's the future. It supports a lot of different editors, lots of languages, and is more flexible than tags (in LSP, basically, you have a separate server running that provides features to editors).
Is it there any internal support for any of them within emacs? Is the ggtags package actively maintained?Because I want to invest some time in one of them to improve the supportfor tramp and ivy. Which of them has more potential in your opinion? Thanks in advance Ergus
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