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From: Stefan Karpinski <stefan.karpinski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cget: prints elements of C code in the git repository
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:04:28 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it be a lot easier to base this on something like ctags, which
> already knows how to do all the parsing of C quirky C?

Ctags also has the advantage of handling other languages. According to
the man page: C, Pascal, Fortran, YACC, lex, and lisp.