Re: etags name collision.

[Ergus]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 01:41:00PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> BTW, regarding the state of our `ctags` compared to the other ones.
> A few years back I remember someone comparing them and finding out that
> we support fewer languages but that for some of those languages we
> provided better results.  If that's not the case any more, maybe we
> should check to see if we could make `etags.el` use "Exhuberant ctags"
> when available so as to benefit from the better tool.
>
>
>        Stefan
Another unmentioned advantage of universal ctags is the supported output
formats. One of them is json, which may simplify and improve the parsing
using our new json API...