[542] in Athena Bugs
ctags and etags
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 20 21:48:25 1988
From: <epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 88 21:47:39 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
This is regard to my previous message. It appears from the outside, that
etags and ctags and almost identical in use. This is on a 5.5T vax.
Script started on Wed Jul 20 21:41:31 1988
W20-575-39% cd /usr/athena
W20-575-39% cmp etags ctags
etags ctags differ: char 1091, line 1
W20-575-39% strings etags > /tmp/et
W20-575-39% strings ctags > /tmp/ct
W20-575-39% diff /tmp/et /tmp/ct
36c36
< etags:
---
> ctags:
W20-575-39% ls -l etags ctags
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 21504 Oct 7 1987 ctags
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 21504 Oct 7 1987 etags
The only obvious difference from using the two is that ctags creates
tags by default and etags creates etags by default. There may be some
implied defaults in etags that are not present in ctags, but it should
be indicated as such.
Ezra
