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23.0.60; Could etags please try find a local tag first?

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Matzi Kratzi <matzikratzi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 2544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2544: 23.0.60; Could etags please try find a local tag first?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:48:52 +0200

Matzi Kratzi <matzikratzi <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Would it make sense, in general, for etags to first try to find a tag
> inside the current buffer? I am working in legacy code that has the
> same name for certain help functions in many files. I would like etags
> to first try find the tag inside the current buffer.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
the time.)

I can certainly see cases where that would be useful.  I think much of
this stuff has been rewritten in terms of xref now?  I gave the xref
code a quick look-over, but I didn't see anything obvious in this
area...

Does anybody know whether Emacs grown support for this use case in the
12 years since this bug report was filed?

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