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Re: Etags support for the Mercury programming language [continued]
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Francesco Potortì |
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Re: Etags support for the Mercury programming language [continued] |
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Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:23:23 +0100 |
>You will note an unconventional move. I was daring enough to add two
>options to 'etags' (-m and -M) to implement some kind of backward
>compatibility with Prolog etags support (based on tagging definitions,
>-M) while allowing a simpler, more idiomatic approach that focuses on
>tagging Mercury declarations only (-m). Backward compatibility is
>legitimate and quite useful, but having it on board all the time may be
>cumbersome for some use cases. Hence the 'behavioral' options I added.
I fear this is too intrusive, but easy to amend.
Instead of -M, youi should use --declarations
Instead of -m, you should use --no-defines
In both cases, the description of the options should be augmented with
their Mercury use.