Re: etags name collision.

[Kaushal Modi]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 8:48 AM Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> Recently I made the already mentioned package gtags-mode in order to use
> it with gnu global. Recently a friend using verilog found that gnu
> global can use ctags (Universal Ctags) as a backend for verilog as
> universal ctags has a set of plugins very complete and works specially
> well with verilog.

I also develop in (system)verilog :)

> 3) Could we consider to keep only etags and remove the ctags file in
> order to let the users to access. GREP had a similar issue some time ago
> with egrep rgrep and similes; and they solved that adding command lines
> to grep; why not to do the same?

Emacs configure comes with a --program-transform-name switch. I add
this to my configure command:
--program-transform-name='s/^ctags$/ctags_emacs/' to avoid clash with
the Universal Ctags 'ctags' executable.