etags crashes, ctags not

[Christian Stimming]

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On Tuesday 27 February 2001 10:59, James LewisMoss wrote:
> etags != ctags
>
> ctags produces a vi tags file.  etags produces an emacs tags file.

I don't agree.

chs@cmobile:~ > ctags --help
Exuberant Ctags 3.3.1, by Darren Hiebert <darren@hiebert.com>
[...]
  -e   Output tag file for use with Emacs.
[...]

In this sense, etags == "ctags -e". Additionally, my distro makes the 
following remark:

       Ctags and etags
       ===============
 
Unfortunately there exists several good ctags and etags implementations.
They have different supported languages and different options and
features.  The several versions are:
 
     ctags             ctags from Darren Hiebert, supports e.g. Eiffel
     ctags -e          etags from Darren Hiebert, supports e.g. Eiffel
     gnuctags          ctags from Emacs sources, supports e.g. Lisp
     etags             etags from Emacs sources, supports e.g. Lisp
     gctags            ctags included in package global, supports e.g. Yacc
 

What I'm saying here is that since there are a bunch of [ec]tags programs 
around, we better add a configure option on which one to use. That's all 
I'm saying.

Christian

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