Re: [PATCH] Re: etags name collision.

[Ergus]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 03:21:48AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>   >> The option --with-ctags means rely on System ctags. I don't think you
>   >> need anything new.
>   >
>   >Universal ctags isn't more "system" than Emacs. They're both packages.
>   >(Again, this is from a distro point of view.)
>
>   emacs's ctags is not a package but just an executable inside another
>   package.
>
> On some systems /usr/bin/ctags is always GNU Emacs ctags (e.g., Gentoo
> GNU/Linux); not Exuberant Ctags which is installed as exuberant-ctags.
>
> If Emacs Ctags is missing something, I'm sure Eli et al would be very
> happy to see such patches.
Emacs Ctags IS sadly missing a lot... from Modern C++ to Rust,
Javascript family and so on. I don't think a single man or the small
emacs team can compete with universal-ctags at the moment in any sense:
modular design, extensibility, output formats, modern parsing
infrastructure, filters... etc.