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23.2; tags search/replace order no longer sensitive to starting file

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Message #13 received at 6965 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: "Daniel B." <dsb <at> smart.net>
Cc: 6965 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6965: 23.2; tags search/replace order no longer sensitive
 to starting file
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 03:23:40 +0200

"Daniel B." <dsb <at> smart.net> writes:

> The order in which tags tables files are searched is broken (relative
> to previous versions of Emacs and the current documentation):
>
> It no longer is sensitive to the starting file, as specified in the
> info documentation (32.2.6):
>
>   These commands scan the list of tags tables starting with the first
>   tags table (if any) that describes the current file, proceed from there
>   to the end of the list, and then scan from the beginning of the list
>   until they have covered all the tables in the list."
>
> That is, if you have a tags file for dir1/... and a tags file for
> dir2/... and load both using visit-tags-table and choose to add to the
> current list (rather than replacing), then starting a tags-search from
> a file dir2/f should start searching per the tags table file for
> dir2/..., and starting from a file dir1/f should start searching per the
> tags file for dir1/....
>
> However, Emacs 23.2 seems to always start with the same tags table file,
> regardless of which file is the current file.

(This old bug unfortunately never got a reply at the time.)

Are you still seeing this on a modern version of Emacs?  We have a
message to the bug from 2016 saying that one user was unable to
reproduce this on Emacs 26.1.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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