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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Message #113 received at 20629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20629: 25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken,
 can't find anything in C++ files.
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 15:12:38 +0200

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.

Mh.  I had taken it for given that each major-mode in fact added
something to the list of functions called when looking for a tag.
Doesn't it work that way?  If not, couldn't it be done for languages
where the language-agnostic behaviour of etags.el is not satisfactory?

>> fourth, match against the entry, without looking at the tag
>
>That brings us false positives.

Sure, and in fact I was suggesting it only as a last resort :)
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