[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Ctags sync rebased (#2666)

[Jiří Techet]

> OK, I would have expected something like this indeed. The only possibly worrysome part would be not missing any location that has to be updated, in case tag names get used some other places in the future.

Exactly, that was my worry too. The patch seems to work for our parsers but one never knows what new parser or update to an existing parser could break.

> Sure, but maybe having more "readable" anonymous names is something that could benefit other consumers of ctags, even CLI ones. There are other tools that use ctags to construct a TOC, and in a TOC I would argue that a readable name is somewhat better. Though, maybe it's not so true because it's only useful when a human looks at the TOC, if the TOC is also used to jump to locations across files boundaries then they need to be unique again.
I'm kind of worried about how annoying it'd be to do, but maybe that's even something we'd like to do: transform anonymous names when displaying them, yet keeping a fairly unique internal name behind the scenes to avoid any clashes. Well, that's just thoughts as they are coming :)

I'm already scared only by reading about it :-).

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