GNU bug report logs - #21443
24.5; etags' complete-tag changes the global value of tags-file-name

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: HuangMario <guiyang.huang <at> me.com>

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 17326

Found in versions 24.3.90, 24.5

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 21443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 21443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, guiyang.huang <at> me.com
Subject: Re: bug#21443: 24.5;
 etags' complete-tag changes the global value of tags-file-name
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 07:56:44 +0300

> Cc: 21443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 03:30:48 +0300
> 
> On 09/10/2015 10:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > you are supposed to invoke visit-tags-table manually with a numeric
> > argument, if you want the local value of tags-file-name set.
> 
> Some users prefer to set tags-table-name programmatically.
> 
> It appears the problem is that etags--xref-find-definitions calls 
> visit-tags-table-buffer unconditionally, and the latter doesn't honor 
> the buffer-local value of this variable.

The OP was talking about Emacs 24.5; there's no xref there AFAIK.
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