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: 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: Tue, 26 May 2015 13:16:15 +0300
On 05/26/2015 05:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Does any other version of ctags produce> better results with the same 
structure of TAGS?

No, 'ctags -e' gives pretty much the same output that 'etags' does now. 
So it's definitely acceptable.

> Given the structure of TAGS and the way xref picks up the symbol at
> point, what else can we do?  Can you suggest how this could work
> better even in principle?

I'm not sure.

One direction would be to add `:' to NONAM, so that a method name would 
implicitly match a qualified tag as well. Not sure if it will be a 
problem in some languages (but in, say, Elisp `:' can be a part of an 
identifier).

Another - to make etags-tags-completion-table include both the pattern 
and the explicit tagname in the returned obarray.




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