Re: make_ctags: use -I option to ignore pg_node_attr macro

Hello

On 2022-Oct-07, Yugo NAGATA wrote:

> I found that tag files generated by src/tools/make_ctags
> doesn't include some keywords, that were field names of node
> structs, for example norm_select in RestrictInfo. Such fields
> are defined with pg_node_attr macro that was introduced
> recently, like:
>
> Selectivity norm_selec pg_node_attr(equal_ignore);
>
> In this case, pg_node_attr is mistakenly interpreted to be
> the name of the field. So, I propose to use -I option of ctags
> to ignore the marco name. Attached is a patch to do it.

I've wondered if there's anybody that uses this script. I suppose if
you're reporting this problem then it has at least one user, and
therefore worth fixing.

If we do patch it, how about doing some more invasive surgery and
bringing it to the XXI century? I think the `find` line is a bit lame:

> # this is outputting the tags into the file 'tags', and appending
> find `pwd`/ -type f -name '*.[chyl]' -print |
> - xargs ctags -a -f tags "$FLAGS"
> + xargs ctags -a -f tags "$FLAGS" -I "$IGNORE_LIST"

especially because it includes everything in tmp_install, which pollutes
the tag list.

In my own tags script I just call "ctags -R", and I feed cscope with
these find lines

(find $SRCDIR \( -name tmp_install -prune -o -name tmp_check -prune \) -o \( -name "*.[chly]" -o -iname "*makefile*" -o -name "*.mk" -o -name "*.in" -o -name "*.sh" -o -name "*.sgml" -o -name "*.sql" -o -name "*.p[lm]" \) -type f -print ; \
find $BUILDDIR \( -name tmp_install -prune \) -o \( -name \*.h -a -type f \) -print )

which seems to give decent results. (Nowadays I wonder if it'd be
better to exclude the "*_d.h" files from the builddir.)
(I wonder why don't I have a prune for .git ...)

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