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 The results of the tags search seems to depend on the syntax table of the current buffer. Another bug: If I try M-x find-tag RET list* RET it will find the tag for `list', not `list*'. XEmacs should first look for an exact string match for the symbol surrounded by the ^? and ^A delimiters before trying a pattern match. I'd work on fixing this, but both of you have already done some hacking on this - this soup already has too many cooks. Martin