bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags

[Dmitry Gutov]

All right, I'm entirely lost now.

On 03/12/2016 09:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I don't think this implies any considerable amount of work in etags
> > either. I could be wrong, of course.
>
> I just said that etags never had these features, so we are talking
> about an enhancement, not a bugfix.

"features", multiple?

> No, I'm just saying this is a new feature whose implementation costs
> are unknown to me at this point.

Just to be clear: by "new feature" here, you mean outputting both 
qualified and unqualified tags for C++, ObjC, Java, and Perl?

If so, fair enough.

> > If you've made a deliberate choice, it doesn't seem like a patch from a
> > volunteer that would make a different choice is likely to be accepted.
>
> I've made no choices, except not to work on this today.  I don't
> understand why you think I'm against adding such a feature, if done
> cleanly.  It's almost a reason to take offense, since I never said
> anything that could be interpreted as such an intent.

You've made an argument that it would somehow imply supporting qualified 
tags for all the languages, and never acknowledged the validity of my 
response. I'm not sure I understand your position anymore.

But anyway, there's a careful "if" in my previous message.