Subject: bug#2807: Subject: 23.0.90; etags can't access .el.gz files

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:14:18 +0200

MON KEY <[email-masked]> writes:

> in dir /usr/share/emacs/23.0.90/lisp
> M-x shell:
> bash-3.1$ etags ./*.el.gz
>
> when true:
> (equal tags-file-name "/usr/share/emacs/23.0.90/lisp/TAGS")
>
> M-x tags-search
> tags-search
>
> I get this error:
> `next-file: Opening input file: no such file or directory,
> /usr/share/emacs/23.0.90/lisp/abbrev.el'

I can confirm that this bug is still present in Emacs 24.

The problem is simply that etags puts the non-gz file name in the TAGS
file.  Like this:

font-core.el,502

Which means that Emacs isn't able to find the font-core.el.gz file.

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