Yegappan  wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:59 PM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Yegappan wrote:
> >
> > > A few minor updates to the help text is below.
> > >
> > > The Exuberant Ctags is no longer maintained (the last release
> > > was in 2009). A maintained version of this is Universal Ctags.
> > > I have updated the tagsrch.txt file to include this.
> >
> > Did anybody compare the two?  Exuberant ctags is very fast, it's easy to
> > make it slower when adding new features.
> >
> >
> To compare the two, I built the tags file for the Linux kernel source tree
> and the results are:
> 
> Exuberant ctags: 1 minute and 1 second (485 MB tags file)
> Universal ctags: 44 seconds (657 MB tags file)
> 
> As Universal ctags is based on exuberant ctags, all the command line
> options are supported. It also supports a lot more languages.

That sounds good.  Thanks for checking.

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