linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: Have make TAGS not include structure members

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Message-Id: <20131119160855.2527630f87d060801d9ee3bb@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:08:55 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yang Bai <hamo.by@...il.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Have make TAGS not include structure members

On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:04:26 -0500 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:59:07 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:14:46 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > > > It is really annoying when I use emacs TAGS to search for something
> > > > like "dev_name" and have to go through 12 iterations before I find the
> > > > function "dev_name". I really do not care about structures that include
> > > > "dev_name" as one of its fields, and I'm sure pretty much all other
> > > > developers do not care either.
> > > 
> > > While I'm also annoyed by this (although with vim/tags), I regularly do search
> > > for struct members, so losing this ability would hurt, too.
> > 
> > metoo.
> 
> You're a vim user too.

You really don't wanna know what I use ;)

> Do I hear any complaints about removing it just
> for emacs users?

Probably not, as only 0.0001% of them are reading this thread :(

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