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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Message #20 received at 21934 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 21934 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21934: 24.5; find-tag: reading TAGS file incorrectly
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:21:53 +0100

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> Eli, please take a look at TAGS attached to this bug report. Do the entries
> there satisfy the "implicit name" conditions?
>
> etags that comes with Emacs outputs a TAGS file with explicit tags for these
> functions, and that naturally works with find-tag.
>
> But I wonder if the example TAGS (produced by a different program, apparently)
> is also valid. And if so, why Emacs's etags doesn't use the implicit tags.

The TAGS file was created with etags from the emacs distribution.

But I do not know the difference between implicit and explicit tags, sorry.


Andreas
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