One more stone against tags-def-pattern. (XEmacs 21.5) Adding a new language to etags.el is a pain :( I found no obvious ways of where and how to customize in etags.el in order to add support for a new language. Had to hack it and re-write for my needs :( May be I'm missing something? Nick. intro: "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: SJT> Anybody know? SJT> From: newsspam4(a)robf.de Subject: etags.el (21.4.14) does SJT> not recognize C++ member definitions Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs Date: SJT> Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:12:43 +0100 SJT> With etags from 21.4.14 called like SJT> etags --lang=c++ --members SJT> on my C++ sources I get a TAGS file like SJT> NNQuery::NNQuery(354,8727 APNNQuery::APNNQuery(360,8830 SJT> but `find-tag' does not show me the definitions of C++ class members as SJT> it does not recognize them. This can be fixed by setting SJT> `tags-def-pattern' to include ":" as follows. SJT> ;; fix problems with unrecognized C++ tags due to missing ":" in regexp SJT> (defconst tags-def-pattern SJT> ;; old "\\(.*[ \t]+\\)?\\**\\(\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+\\)[ ();,\t]*\C-?" new SJT> "\\(.*[ \t]+\\)?\\**\\(\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\|:\\)+\\)[ ();,\t]*\C-?" ) SJT> But I wonder if there is another way of doing this or is it really a SJT> bug? SJT> Bye Robert. ---------- SJT> -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences SJT> http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 SJT> Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; SJT> ask what your business can "do for" free software.