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Re: [PATCH] etags support
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] etags support
- From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:03:20 -0500 (EST)
- cc: "Derek R. Price" <derek dot price at openavenue dot com>, automake at gnu dot org
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- Reply-To: dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com
On 21 Dec 2000, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Derek" == Derek R Price <derek.price@openavenue.com> writes:
>
> creche. etags --version
> etags (GNU Emacs 20.5)
> Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. and Ken Arnold
> This program is distributed under the same terms as Emacs
>
>
> It is pretty lame that the exuberant tags people chose to use the name
> `etags' for their program. The Emacs etags has been around since 1984
actually (it's been quite a while since I looked for variants - 1994 - to
find a good version, though at that time, I chose one of them), there's
been more than one program named 'etags' (ditto for tags++). exuberant
tags is doing what some others do: when invoked by that name, it handles
the corresponding format.
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