GNU bug report logs - #54133
29.0.50; Buffer-menu-visit-tags-table disrupts non-tags buffers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com>

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:38:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> rgrjr.com>, 54133 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54133: 29.0.50; Buffer-menu-visit-tags-table disrupts non-tags buffers
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:19:31 +0100

>     The real problem is that visit-tags-table assumes that the user knows
> what they're doing, and makes these irreversible changes before being
> sure of having a valid tags table.  That would be a harder thing to fix,
> though -- and might not deal as well with my buffer-menu typos.  ;-}

IIUC the problem is that ‘tags-verify-table' calls 'tags-table-mode'
first and 'verify-tags-table-function' afterwards.

martin
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