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Re: etags name collision.

From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: etags name collision.
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:10:43 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) 
On Apr 11 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It's the other way around: ctags was a very old Unix program, and
> Emacs developed a GNU version of that program.  Universal ctags came
> much later.  So you should ask them why did they decide to use a name
> that was already taken.

They are both implementation of the POSIX utility ctags, with
extensions.

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