GNU bug report logs - #21934
24.5; find-tag: reading TAGS file incorrectly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.5

Done: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>

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: andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com, 21934 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21934: 24.5; find-tag: reading TAGS file incorrectly
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 04:41:18 +0200

On 11/22/2015 03:17 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> But what else, really, could (xref-backend-identifier-at-point 'etags)
> return here? It only knows the current buffer's syntax table, and that
> its data source is etags.

I take that back: even thought it's not widely used, etags has the 
find-tag-default-function variable/major-mode-property, and starting 
with 5ffa4e3e3c853ed75e4f4b441e813252112f2d24 xref delegates to it.

It's a bit weird (looks at buffer contents before point if point is not 
at any symbol), but hopefully that won't be much of a problem.
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