Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, tom@tromey.com, john@yates-sheets.org,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 01:26:43 +0200
> 
> On 07.01.2021 17:56, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> > - A change to lib-src/etags.c which implements handing of '-L' flag, for 
> > compatibility with ctags.
> 
> How do you feel about cherry-picking this particular change to the 
> emacs-27 release branch?

I don't mind in general, but:

  . this lacks the proper documentation (we should at least say that
    -L is for compatibility with ...) and NEWS item
  . it should have a corresponding long-option name, and thus should
    be reflected in longopts[]

> Or if you don't, how do you feel about that code change at all? One 
> alternative for me is to try to support both 'ctags -e' and 'etags', 
> with some ad-hoc version detection, I guess. Then the change won't be 
> needed.

Sorry, I don't think I follow.  Can you elaborate on this?