Future of ctags and etags in XEmacs

[Hans de Graaff]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:15:24 +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:


> On cygwin at least we bundle them separately in a xemacs-tags package:
> 
> /usr/bin/ctags.exe
> /usr/bin/etags.exe
> /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/etags.1.gz
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/xemacs-tags-21.4.20.README
> 
> But there is still the collision with the Exuberant ctags package :-(

Thanks for the feedback.

The solution we are currently testing involves our eselect module. [1] 
Basically each of exuberant tags, GNU Emacs, and XEmacs install their 
version of ctags/etags with a postfix, and eselect makes sure that the 
right thing happens (i.e. with only one of these /usr/bin/ctags is a 
symlink to the postfixed version, and otherwise the user can select which 
version to symlink to).

Kind regards,

Hans


1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/