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24.5; find-tag: reading TAGS file incorrectly

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From: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21934 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#21934: 24.5; find-tag: reading TAGS file incorrectly
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:50:40 +0100

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andreas Matthias <andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  21934 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:49:32 +0100
>> 
>> >> 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").
>> 
>> Yes, that's reasonable.
>
> I'm sorry: can I have a complete specification, please?  Given a
> token that includes one or more of '.' and ':', how to determine the 2
> tags that etags should produce?

See `funcname' in:

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#9

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