Regression for the triple start string issue has been introduced in SVN
revision 669 (fishman git a314e11158307db84c0dadb758846b2302fe69cd) on
2008-06-11. In ctags 5.7 it did work, in 5.8 not anymore.
See also http://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/bugs/229/ for the original bug,
which led to the old fix.

The other issue with normal strings in skipEverything() is even older.