Re: Problem with TAGS, but it's probably me.
karlheg(a)hegbloom.net (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
I've been using the etags.el from GNU Emacs for a long time now
because I think it works a lot better. I began using it one day when
I was trying to find things in the GNU Libc sources. A tags search
using the XEmacs etags would land me one place, while a tags search
using the GNU Emacs etags would land me somewhere else... the GNU
Emacs etags put me in the right place, while the XEmacs etags did
not.
XEmacs etags should be fixed.
The problem with switching to GNU Emacs etags is that it's not always
easy to tell which features are unique to our version. I myself have
worked on etags repeatedly and don't remember all the stuff I added or
fixed.
Switching to GNU Emacs code in proposed fashion should be kept as a
last resort.