Re: etags name collision.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12.04.2022 16:45, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> What I think I said was that ctags has a standardized format by POSIX,
> this is what Emacs ctags (and BSD ctags) output; Exuberant ctags does
> not output this format.

Wikipedia says:

Extended Ctags
This is the format used by Vim's Exuberant Ctags and Universal Ctags. 
These programs can generate an original ctags file format or an extended 
format that attempts to retain backward compatibility.

Universal Ctags's manual says:

u-ctags, e-ctags u-ctags is the default output format extending the 
Exuberant Ctags output format
(e-ctags).
--format=1 and --format=2 are same as --output-format=e-ctags and
--output-format=u-ctags respectively.
See man page tags (5) for details. The difference between u-ctags and 
e-ctags are marked as “EX-
CEPTION”. Additional changes in Universal Ctags are described in Changes 
to the tags file format.

Somebody should experiment with the --format flag, but if there is 
indeed no option for the original format, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags should be updated.