Re: Is xemacs' etags.el really "better and faster"?
From: Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 01:04:16 -0700
please check out the newest etags.el.
i did some synching with fsf in this area.
FWIW, I just upgraded to 21.4.3 (more or less painlessly).
21.4.3 seems zippier and snazzier than 21.1.13, with the exception of tags lookup.
Tag lookup is way slower for me, borderline annoying. I have tags-build-completion-table
turned off. But I don't think that is causing the problem.
21.1.13 found 'find-tag' instantly, 21.4.3 took 10-15 seconds to
find the same tag and using the same tag tables.
-jeff
Anthony wrote:
... as the comments at the top claim? I spent a bit of time trying
to use it, and concluded that it's dysfunctional. The "exuberant
ctags" FAQ claims the following...
%% 5. Why doesn't Xemacs correctly locate the tag in the source file?
%%
%% This has been observed with version 20.3. It seems that when Xemacs
%% searches for a %%tag, it searches using the tag name instead of the
%% search string located in the TAGS file. This is a bug in Xemacs and
%% does not occur in the GNU version of Emacs.
I'm not quite sure yet whether that diagnosis is right, or whether it's
doing something else, but it doesn't behave "sensibly" for me. Looking
up say a tag "Float" appears to find something like
"BoxedFloat::serialize",
which seems consistent with one reading of the documentation, but if I
read it that way it's a pretty bizarre intentional behaviour.
And a patch to sync to the FSF version last year met with no
response: