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#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>
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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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