[Ctags-announce] Ctags-4.1pre3 available

[Darren H. <da...@hi...>]

I enjoyed some time away from coding over the holidays.

I have just put up another prerelease of ctags-4.1. I will probably
end up calling the released version 5.0 because the changes since
4.0.3 have been so extensive.

Here are the significant changes since pre2:

* Changed --<LANG>-regex option to --regex-<LANG>.

* Changed the default regular expression (RE) syntax from Posix
  basic RE to Posix extended RE, because the Posix RE documents that
  I could find referred to basic RE as "obsolete".

* Added ability to define the kind specifier to use for an RE
  specified using --regex-<LANG>.

* Added ability to map shell patterns to languages (on supported
  platforms). This allows more flexible mapping than the extension
  mapping (which is still supported).

* Paths to source files in the tag file are now relative to the tag
  file rather than the current directory.

* Added support for generation of tags for makefiles using a regex
  parser. This parser is a good model for how to write a regex
  parser.

* Added check to prevent infinite loops in case of recusive symbolic
  links.

* Added new option, --ext-fields, which allows user to specify which
  extension fields to include in tag file. The --kind-long option
  has been deprecated, its functionality being incorporated into
  this option. Also, the 'A' flag of the --c-types and --java-types
  options has been replaced with this new option.

* Added new option, --extra-tags, to replace the --qualified-tags and
  --file-tags options, and the 'C' flag to the --c-types and
  --java-types options.

Please be sure to read the man page regarding the options mentioned
above.

Let me know what you think.

-- 
Darren Hiebert <da...@hi...>
http://darren.hiebert.com