Re: [PATCH] make tags

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Fri, 05 Nov 1999 19:48:56 -0500


In message <19991106013631.A6735@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>, Jamie Lokier writes:
+-----
| Oliver Xymoron wrote:
| > I think it would be more correct to call the targets etags, since they're
| > emacs-specific.
|
| Are you sure? vi can use /some/ kind of tags file, though as I don't
| use vi I couldn't tell you if it's the same format as the Emacs tags
| file.
+--->8

ctags and etags formats are different; Emacs might be able to use ctags
files, but vi probably can't use etags files. (Then again, someone may well
have added that to vim by now; I prefer nvi, which doesn't.)

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