The existing upstream [...] is currently a regex parser but a C parser can do things the regex one can't, and is usually faster
My bad; I completely misunderstood the other discussion then. I thought you meant that you _didn't_ want to pull in the one from uctags (because it used regex and Geany didn't handle those nicely), but that the plan was to eventually use it (because there was work in making Geany support regex-based uctags).
Well I was trying to _subtly_ hint that you should make it happen :-)
Daaammit. OK, I'll look into it.
it is going to take one of you matlab users to do it for it to happen, clearly the originator is unlikely to improve it.
Oh no. I became the chosen one, and it's for something with Matlab 😨