Re: BUG REPORT: etags searching in lisp mode

>>>>> "Heiko" == Heiko Muenkel <muenkel(a)tnt.uni-hannover.de&gt; writes: >>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: Hrvoje> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: >>> Exact searching for symbols in lisp mode seems to be messed up. >>> >>> To reproduce, make a TAGS table for XEmacs using `make TAGS', >>> do xemacs -q eval (setq tags-always-exact t) visit the file >>> .../lisp/etags.el and do M-x find-tag RET find-tag RET ==> No >>> entries matching find-tag Hrvoje> I am unable to repeat this bug. For me, `M-. find-tag Hrvoje> RET' correctly finds `find-tag'. Did you omit the step, `visit .../lisp/etags.el'?

Hrvoje> That's because the expression you type in is actually a Hrvoje> regexp (tags-always-exact is something else, and it's Hrvoje> almost totally obsolete now.) The docstring for find-tag says nothing about regexps. If a user wants to do regexp searching for tags, isn't the right tool tags-apropos?

Heiko> In the original function there's a strange implementation of Heiko> the search. I don't understand why it was implemented this Heiko> way, so it's possible, that my changes breaks something Heiko> else. Therefore I've included the changed file in this Heiko> mail. Please try it and let me know if it works or not. I'll Heiko> send a patch to xemacs-patches if it works. Heiko, thanks for looking at this. Hrvoje, please take a look at Heiko's changes.