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Re: etags for mfiles?
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: etags for mfiles? |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:35:04 -0600 (CST) |
On 11-Nov-1998, Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden> wrote:
| Hi, I am the maintainer of etags.
|
| John Eaton wrote:
| I don't think it's off topic. Unfortunately, I also don't know of
| anyone who has modified etags/ctags/?tags to parse Octave .m files.
| If anyone is interested in working on a project like this (or has
| already done so) please let me know as I think it would be a useful
| addition for Octave and Emacs.
|
| I think that adding native support to etags for octave files is overkill,
| as the code posted by Mario Storti is good for the job.
If so, then I agree. I guess I am way out of date (or I was never up
to date to begin with) because I didn't realize that you could specify
the regexps to match on the etags command line. I had also not
thought about whether it would be possible to generate useful tags
just by using some regexps.
| What I said above may not be true for two reasons:
| 1) if the "function" keyword and the function name are on different lines,
| the tag cannot be generated with the current etags regexp mechanism;
This doesn't happen in the Octave sources, but it could happen if you
have a very long list of returned values and wanted to keep the line
length under some limit. In any case, I don't think it happens very
often, so it is probably not worth worrying about.
| 2) if many of you think that it would be useful for etags to know about .m
| files by default.
Probably not, if the tags generated by the code that Mario posted
works well enought.
| If I am convinced, I will schedule inclusion of support for .m files in
| etags (don't hold your breath) and will accept code that implements that or
| write it myself. Otherwise, I'll include Mario Storti's code in the
| examples section of the etags manual that comes with Emacs.
If it is OK with Mario, I'll also included it in the Octave manual.
Thanks,
jwe
- etags for mfiles?, StannersSP, 1998/11/10
- etags for mfiles?, John W. Eaton, 1998/11/10
- Re: etags for mfiles?, Mario Storti, 1998/11/10
- Re: etags for mfiles?, Francesco Potorti`, 1998/11/11
- Re: etags for mfiles?,
John W. Eaton <=
- Re: etags for mfiles?, Mario Storti, 1998/11/11
- Re: etags for mfiles?, Jim Van Zandt, 1998/11/12
- Re: etags for mfiles?, John W. Eaton, 1998/11/12
- Re: etags for mfiles?, Jim Van Zandt, 1998/11/12
- Re: etags for mfiles?, John W. Eaton, 1998/11/12