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Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of the manual

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Cc: 54543 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54543: Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of
 the manual
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:37:51 +0200

> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:12:48 +0100
> From:  Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> Steps to reproduce the problem:
> 
> emacs -Q
> Eval (info "(emacs) Select Tags Table")
> 
> The manual says at the beginning:
> 
> "Emacs has at any time at most one “selected” tags table.  All the
> commands for working with tags tables use the selected one."
> 
> But then, later on, it says:
> 
> "The tags commands use all the tags tables
> in the current list.  If you start a new list, the new tags table is
> used _instead_ of others.  If you add the new table to the current list,
> it is used _as well as_ the others."
> 
> Doesn't this sound like a contradiction?  I think the first sentence
> should say there's at most one selected "tags table _list_", right?

No.  There's both the "selected" tags table and the "current set of
tags table" (what you call "tags table list").

The text is indeed a bit confusing, because it leads to this
interpretation, but the way to fix it is different from what you
thought.  Hmm...

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