GNU bug report logs - #28409
26.0.50; xref, tags, and multiple projects

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>

Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:30:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 28409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Cc: 28409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28409: 26.0.50; xref, tags, and multiple projects
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 22:40:34 +0300

> From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:29:03 -0600
> 
> I have multiple projects open at a given time.
> 
> If I use xref on two projects, and load tags file for both, I would like
> it if the tags were project-specific.  Currently I only have the option
> to keep all the tags files together, which sometimes leads to conflicts
> where the same symbol appears in both projects.

You should be able to make the tags tables local to a buffer by
invoking visit-tags-table with a prefix argument (see the doc string
of that command for details).  Did you try that?
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