I wanted to find something buried deep within the XEmacs source. So I decided to try out this "TAGS" thing. make tags Tools -> Tags -> Set Tags Table File (set to appropriate file) Tools -> Tags -> Find Tag infinite loop (escapable with C-g) Is it a problem with me, or with XEmacs (21.5-b1)?

>> infinite loop (escapable with C-g) >> >> Is it a problem with me, or with XEmacs (21.5-b1)? 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):

I've been using the etags.el from GNU Emacs for a long time now because I think it works a lot better. I began using it one day when I was trying to find things in the GNU Libc sources. A tags search using the XEmacs etags would land me one place, while a tags search using the GNU Emacs etags would land me somewhere else... the GNU Emacs etags put me in the right place, while the XEmacs etags did not. Perhaps we should switch to the GNU Emacs etags.el, and merge any features added to our etags into that? IIRC it runs out of the box with only a few minor changes. I wonder if it's worth it to support "gtags" (from BSD "global")? "global" (google for it) makes a berkely DB btree index, afaik. If XEmacs berkeley DB supported a btree index where each key can have more than one value associated with it, we could support "gtags" directly in Lisp.