Re: etags name collision.

[Óscar Fuentes]

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

Nifty.

In MSYS2 we simply rm bin/ctags.exe (and the corresponding man file) and
provide universal-ctags as a dependency. Arch Linux renames (with `mv')
"ctags" to "ctags.emacs".