Re: Problem with TAGS, but it's probably me.

Robert> I get this as well. I haven't tracked it down yet (I haven't looked Robert> very hard either). I've already reported the bug: http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200105/msg00239.html I received no responses. For what it's worth, this patch appears to fix it (not included in the message above): --- etags.el~ Fri May 11 20:11:21 2001 +++ etags.el Wed May 23 10:53:57 2001 ＠＠ -193,7 +193,8 ＠＠ ;; Parent directories (when tags-check-parent-directories-for-tag-files (let ((cur default-directory)) - (while (file-exists-p (setq cur (expand-file-name ".." cur))) + (while (and (file-exists-p (setq cur (expand-file-name ".." cur))) + (not (equal cur "/.."))) (let ((parent-tag-file (expand-file-name "TAGS" cur))) (when (file-readable-p parent-tag-file) (push parent-tag-file result))))))