[minor style issue] filenames and C++ reserved words in header files

Raul Miller (rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu)
20 Mar 1996 15:31:06 GMT

rmenon@tisl.ukans.edu writes:
> Has anyone noticed that emacs bombs while trying to scan etags
> files of the kernel ? (or does no one use such tools anymore ? Its
> really useful for browsing through lots of code) It does'nt seem to
> like a "," (comma) in a filename and drivers/scsi has a couple of
> files like these (53c7,8xx.c and 53c7,8xx.h).

I just ran a test, and I didn't run into any problems with this.
I used emacs version 19.30.

If there was some kind of problem it would be easy to fix in emacs --
just change the regular expression used to parse this line of the TAGS
file.

-- 
Raul