GNU bug report logs - #20629
25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 05:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20629: 25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files.
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.
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