Re: etags - why changes incompatible with Emacs use (doesn't list all files)?

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>]

Daniel Barclay wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know why the Cygwin version (or the original version) of
> etags doesn't support --append in etags (-e) mode and doesn't list all
> files anymore (relative to Emacs' etags executable)?
> 
> Listing all files was essential for Emacs' tags-search command.
> 
> If you ran etags on a list of files, you could use tags-search or
> tags-query-replace to search or search and replace in all listed files.
> (It didn't matter whether the files contained any functions or variables
> for which tags could be created.  All given files were listed in the TAGS
> files, so all could be searched.)
> 
> However, the current Cygwin etags ignores files with extensions that
> it doesn't recognize.  It doesn't seem to have any option to list
> all files.
> 
> (Adding a few specific file extensions (with --langmap) won't work,
> because I want it to list any file found.  Some don't have extensions,
> and I don't want to have to find every extension used in the directory
> subtree and add that to the etags command just to get the file listed.)
> 
> (I can partly work around the problem by using "--lang=java", but
> that's only because in my case it doesn't matter if I break support
> for etags' other languages.)
> 
> Append mode was essential too.  Without it, you can't use find and xargs
> to invoke etags.  (That means you can't select exactly which files you want
> to index or control their order, or you can't handle a long list of file
> names.)
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why the CygWin version of etags doesn't support
> these important features?
> 

Check the vim documentation.  IIRC this etags is vim supplied.

Earnie.

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