On 2022-03-10, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi all, > > The Vim help files refer to exuberant ctags in several places. > Exuberant ctags is not maintained for quite some time. > The last official release was made in July 2009. > > Universal ctags is a maintained replacement for exuberant ctags. > The repository for this is at https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags. > This is mostly backward compatible with exuberant ctags and > has added support for parsing a lot more languages. > > Should we update the Vim help files to refer to Universal ctags instead > of Exuberant ctags?
I think so. There are a few places where we should continue to mention Exuberant ctags as a supported program, but where we recommend some version or provide an example, it should be Universal ctags. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20220311080531.GA10070%40phoenix.
