Re: IDE

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 20:02:56 +0300
> 
> On 10/24/2015 05:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Raw TAGS files are not supposed to be used for anything but
> > definitions.
> >
> > For references, you are supposed to use ID-Utils or something similar,
> > which use a different format of their DB.
> 
> Why id-utils, really? AFAIK, Global supports different kinds of searches 
> (definitions, references and others), *and* it can plug into ctags, 
> which extends its list of supported languages (not sure if that limits 
> the files scanned that way to "find definitions" search only).

We already support both, don't we?  So there's no contradiction.

My point was that the format of the database is not really important,
certainly not to the user.