Future of ctags and etags in XEmacs

[Hans de Graaff]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:52:32 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Tags is an extremely important functionality, and since many systems
> where XEmacs may be installed will not normally provide a tags program,
> I think it's important that we provide one in the source distro.

I can see how this was true some time ago, but I wonder to which extend 
this still is the case. Anyway, your position is clear so that helps to 
determine what to do.

> AFAIK, *we* don't care how you solve this.  I'm sure there are many
> X?Emacs users who use Exuberant ctags for one reason or another, but I
> can't recall ever seeing a complaint about XEmacs incompatibility.

I don't have any first-hand experience, but was lead to this belief by 
these questions in the exuberant FAQ: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
faq.html#4

Thanks for the clarification,

Hans