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<p>Hint to everybody else, try this PR with a different language for xmas and new year, and be sure to report your results :)</p>
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<p>Good hint - so I tried C/C++ to have it simple ;-). Here's the result:</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/techee/geany/tree/cxx_parser">https://github.com/techee/geany/tree/cxx_parser</a></p>
<p>There are definitely some things that could be improved about it (e.g. anonymous names), but parsing itself is about as good as the upstream ctags parser ability.</p>
<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=811085" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/elextr">@elextr</a> Since you like finding all the possible cases where the current C parser fails, would you give it a try?</p>

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