Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, tom@tromey.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>  john@yates-sheets.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:25:15 +0200
> 
> On 22.02.2021 18:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Sounds good.  And maybe we could convince the ctags developers to
> > donate the --langmap support code to us, then we could simply put it
> > in etags.
> 
> I'm guessing finding the authors, getting their consent and coordinating 
> the assignments, as well as adapting the code to etags.c is going to 
> take significantly more effort than just reimplementing the feature.

Did you look at what "git log -L" has to say about the authors of that
code?

Didn't look into the adaptation costs; maybe you are right here.