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<p>One could imagine something like that to recognize whether tags were generated by i.e. the C parser even for a custom filetype (if (filetypes[GEANY_FILETYPES_C]->lang == possibly_custom_ft->lang)) or something similar.</p>
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<p>Yeah. But actually this case won't be broken by the API change - one would have to first assign the value to a variable of the langType type.</p>

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