Subject: Re: bug#20629: 25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files.

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 16:00:54 +0300

On 05/28/2015 03:16 PM, Francesco Potortì wrote:

> second, if appropriate, match against a tag ::NAME
> third, regex match against a tag .*::NAME$

Why can we use colons? That implies some sort of knowledge about C++, 
whereas until now etags.el has remained language-agnostic.

> fourth, match against the entry, without looking at the tag

That brings us false positives.