[Geany-devel] Exuberant Ctags Support

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Wed May 25 21:15:35 UTC 2011


Hi Jiri,

Support all you say, especially well done and thanks to Matthew.

Except:

> 3. More general comment - if we have ctags file parsing support, it's
> a question whether Geany should continue using the old format and its
> generation. Tags generation would be then redundant in Geany if you
> can do the same with ctags (and ctags is the right tool to generate
> tags, not a text editor). Geany's documentation would then just say
> what flags should be used for ctags in order to create all the
> necessary fields.
>

Using an external tool won't work with real-time tag parsing

Cheers
Lex



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