[Geany-devel] Exuberant Ctags Support

[Lex Trotman]

On 30 May 2011 10:43, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 05/29/11 17:33, Jiří Techet wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 22:16, Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>  wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I think that would be best.  Tag manager isn't really a binary format,
>>> but
>>> there's no reason to use a format that you can't punch in on a normal
>>> keyboard.
>>
>> The tags are saved in tm_tag_write() using code like
>>
>> fprintf(fp, "%c%d", TA_TYPE, tag->type);
>>
>> so the file contains binary representation of integers and other types
>> so it is a binary format.
>>
>
> It contains ASCII textual representations of integers doesn't it?

Not really, TA_TYPE is 204 and %c writes the character whose value is
204, assuming the system supports 8 bit characters I guess.

>
> Either way, it's not a very user friendly format :)

+1

Cheers
Lex