Re: Missing entries for Perl in etags-regen-file-extensions -- okay for emacs-30?

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 01:34pm +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
>> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:15:50 +0100
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can I install this simple change on the release branch, please?
>>
>> -- >8 --
>> ---
>>  lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el b/lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el
>> index 21ea9bfb8b3..e97b0cd7574 100644
>> --- a/lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el
>> +++ b/lisp/progmodes/etags-regen.el
>> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ etags-regen-regexp-alist
>>  ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-01/msg00323.html
>>  (defcustom etags-regen-file-extensions
>>    '("rb" "js" "py" "pl" "el" "c" "cpp" "cc" "h" "hh" "hpp"
>> -    "java" "go" "cl" "lisp" "prolog" "php" "erl" "hrl"
>> +    "java" "go" "cl" "lisp" "prolog" "php" "erl" "hrl" "pl" "pm"
>>      "F" "f" "f90" "for" "cs" "a" "asm" "ads" "adb" "ada")
>>    "Code file extensions for `etags-regen-mode'.
>
> We already have "pl" in the list.  Adding "pm" is okay, but then why
> only it? why not add all the extensions that 'etags' supports?

Okay thanks, I'll add "pm" so we don't have just one Perl extension, and
hopefully we can figure out a better solution for master.

-- 
Sean Whitton