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>

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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: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:43:48 +0200

On 11/22/2015 07:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> If that's the conclusion, I think I can make etags do that for Lua.
>
> Should that be done for tokens that include '.' and ':'?

I think so.

> Can there be
> more than one of these in a token, and if so, what should etags do?
> IOW, if we have foo.bar.baz or foo:bar.baz etc., what should be the
> result?

Just two, I think. foo.bar is not a function, and bar.baz probably won't 
be a "symbol at point".

So just the fully qualified tag name, and the local tag name ("baz").
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