Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:16:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Oliver Roese <oroese AT edina DOT xnc DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Re: Rhide: How to configure the searching facilities!
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Oliver Roese wrote:

> 1) Ctags stores the exact location of his references. Mkid does not, it
> stores only the filenames. If you require Grep-like output, a language
> insensitive search in this file is performed.

`lid' supports regular expressions.  You could use a suitable regular
expression, like [^a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9_]+[^a-zA-Z0-9_] to limit the
search to identifiers.

> By the way, i found out that the Ctags coming with Emacs is clearly inferior
> to "Exuberant-Tags" (available for free from
> http://fly.hiwaay.net/~darren/ctags/ as already posted).

Which etags (from what Emacs version) did you use, and in what ways is
Exuberant-Tags superior to it?