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

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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 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 18:32:46 +0300
On 05/28/2015 05:56 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Yes, it does.  Try running it on test/etags/cp-src/c.C, for example.

Okay, sometimes it does. Point is, tags-explicit-match-p won't apply to 
the many entries where it doesn't.

> Whether "etags -Q" generates explicit tag names or not is orthogonal
> to whether it qualifies class members.  The decision depends on the
> text surrounding the pattern.

Yes, okay.

> If you mean that producing two entries instead of one under -Q will
> produce better results both with xref-find-definitions and with
> completion...

It should, though at the cost of larger file size (and completion table 
size, relative to the proposal where we don't include the unqualified 
tags in it).




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