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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 05:50:19 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 02:50:23 +0300
> 
> On 05/27/2015 07:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Yes, but they look at different parts of the tag's record.
> 
> We check every tag against both functions, that's the point. 
> tag-implicit-name-match-p is more flexible,
> 
> > No, we match them with tag-exact-match-p, AFAICS.
> 
> No. Unless there's an explicit tag name, this function will return nil. 
> Check out the first comment in its implementation.

I _was_ talking about explicit tag names.

> Anyway, this thread of thought is probably not worth pursuing: we'd want 
> to be compatible with 'ctags -e' (not least because it supports more 
> languages), and there's no option to generate qualified C++ method names 
> there.

Exuberant ctags does have such an option: --extra=+q.