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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 05/29/2015 11:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> xref expects more accurate results, because it shows them all at once,
> instead of one by one, in some order that assures the users will only
> ever see the few first ones. So yes, I'd say the switch to xref puts
> a different kind of pressure on what etags/ctags does.
It does exert some pressure, but mostly to ensure that when a user
searches for a "symbol" that they see in a buffer, it should have an
explicit or an implicit tag match.
Whether qualified tag names are included in the completion, and whether
one can search for a qualified tag name reliably, that hasn't changed
between find-tag and xref-find-definitions.
> foo::bar::baz is standard C++, AFAIK, so the ambiguity is already
> known to C++ programmers.
I'm not disputing that.
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