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27.0.50; xref-find-definition versus find-tag in Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

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Message #8 received at 37008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 37008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37008: 27.0.50;
 xref-find-definition versus find-tag in Introduction to Programming
 in Emacs Lisp
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:54:24 +0300

> From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 03:52:31 +0200
> 
> 
> A this node:
> 
> File: eintr.info,  Node: On Reading this Text,  Next: Who You Are,
> Prev: Why,  Up: Preface
> 
> reference is made to `find-tag' function. But function is obsolete
> find-tag
> 
>   This function is obsolete since 25.1;
>   use ‘xref-find-definitions’ instead.
>   Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.20.
> 
> Thus the manual should be corrected as not to confuse beginners.

You are somehow reading a very old version of that manual, because
this issue was fixed more than a year ago (see bug#31542), and Emacs
26 ships with the fix.  I cannot find even a single reference to
find-tag in eintr.info that comes with Emacs 26, let alone 27.

Thanks.

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