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From: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: generalized tags..
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Date: 5 Apr 89 13:30:53 GMT
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In-reply-to: cdr%suneast.East@SUN.COM (Constantine Rasmussen)

In article <8904041843.AA00370@car.sunecd.com>, cdr%suneast (Constantine Rasmussen) writes:
>You want the ID package not tags.  Tags only tags function definitions
>which dont exist in some languages.  ID will cover everthing well.

I agree that ID is great for C files, but decided that it was too much
work to fix it for Lisp files.  The problem is that ID's knowledge of
regular expression syntax goes down to a very low level and Lisp
symbols can and do contain regular expression characters (for example,
*print-escape*).

Has else attacked this problem?
-- 
                                            dan

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