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 #30 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: jschwab <at> gmail.com, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bugs related to buffer-local tags-file-name
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:53:48 +0200
close 158
close 17326
close 23164
close 19741
thanks

> Cc: emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:12:20 +0200
> 
> On 29.11.2016 19:25, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Dmitry, should I wait for your testing as well, or should I just push
> > the changes?
> 
> Yes, sorry. I think you should go ahead with them, maybe with some minor 
> tweaks.

Done.

> - In visit-tags-table-buffer's docstring, "optional arg CONT" should 
> probably be just "CONT", all three times.

Fixed.

> - More importantly, this patch contains a backward-incompatible change 
> to the tags-completion-table function. Maybe we should consider how to 
> make BUF an optional argument.

It is optional now.

> - It would be great if let-binding tags-table-list around 
> tags-lazy-completion-table didn't leak it to the global value either 
> (which happens with company-etags). Alas, this seems to be a harder task.

Right, patches welcome.




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