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<p dir="auto">I havn't tried this PR because I'm not sure how to test it, do you have any solid examples of ctags files, especially one that the existing parser fails on?</p>
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<p dir="auto">From looking at the code I think the Geany parser didn't handle escaping of some special characters so if they were present in ctags files, they didn't get unescaped. I mainly switched to the libreadtags library so the code gets simpler for us and we don't have to care about details of the ctags file format ourselves.</p>
<p dir="auto">Not related to parsing the ctags file, I also wanted to get the <code>typeref</code> field from tag files so we have function return values and variable types and also get <code>extras</code> for anonymous tag information (not used for anything in this patch, it waits for my anonymous tag handling patches).</p>

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