On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 06:16:12PM -0700, Edward Z. Yang wrote: > Hello Eric, > > I dug around for why I filed for the change in behavior. > Here is the bug report that prompted it: > > https://coq.inria.fr/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2726 > > ctags -e is not a perfect replacement for etags; in this > example, 'make tags' calls out to etags and expects the Emacs > version. > > etags = emacs tags. It seems only natural for it to have priority, > and tools which refer to it are likely to assume emacs tags. If > I am an emacs user, and I install 'ctags', I don't expect my 'etags' > executable to suddenly change; I should ask for it specifically. > > Though, yes, I agree the behavior change is unexpected and confusing, > if you had been using ctags and then installed emacs. > > Cheers, > Edward
Thanks, seems reasonable. Fine with me to close this. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
