Re: Exuberant ctags can tag files names too

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 15:17:40 EST


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:01:08PM -0500, John Kacur wrote:
> Exuberant ctags can tag file names too. I find this extremely useful
> when browsing kernel source, and so would like to share it with
> everyone. (You can now type ":tag oprof.c" for example, and jump to the
> file with that name.)
>
> I previously sent a patch which naively just appended an "--extra=+f" to
> the ctags line. Here's a much smarter patch that works by first
> querrying if ctags is exuberant, and if so, whether the --extra
> functionality is available before adding the line. Please apply.
> Signed-off-by: John Kacur jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx

I already applied your original patch (end of January) but only this week
it hit Linus' tree.
I think ctags users will just upgrade if their ctgs does not support
--extra=+f.
At least I will await and see if anyone complains before applying this
patch (btw. line wrapped)

Sam
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