<p>Allow me to join the discussion.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The regex engine used by Geany does not match the one used by upstream ctags</p>
</blockquote>
<p>How about replacing the regex engine of u-ctags?<br>
<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-id="354921315" data-permission-text="Issue title is private" data-url="https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/issues/1861" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/universal-ctags/ctags/issues/1861/hovercard" href="https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags/issues/1861">universal-ctags/ctags#1861</a></p>
<p>I'm very surprised that <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=793526" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/b4n">@b4n</a> has rewritten two parsers of u-ctags.<br>
Improving Cobol and Flex parsers are welcome but... <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=793526" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/b4n">@b4n</a>, what will you do if someone adds more regex basedd parsers to u-ctags. Replacing the regex engine of u-ctags is more effortless.<br>
I'm sorry I don't have time now. So I don't read the all discussion.</p>

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