"named tags" don't work

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! The easiest way to see this bug is by viewing its descripion online at comp.emacs.xemacs at http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th.... I've also pasted it here: From: Michael Spertus (mps(a)geodesic.com) Subject: Tags not working View this article only Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs Date: 2003-07-14 21:59:12 PST The "name" part of an etags regexp doesn't work for me under XEmacs, although it works fine on GNU Emacs. For example, mps＠bravo:~\> cat foo foobar mps＠bravo:~\> etags --language none --regex "/foobar/baz/" foo Under GNU Emacs, the unique tag name is seen as "baz", where XEmacs incorrectly sees the tag name "foobar" but not "baz". The XEmacs etags documentation describes the (more useful) behavior seen in GNU Emacs. Is this a bug? Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks, Mike Post a follow-up to this message Message 2 in thread From: Stephen J. Turnbull (stephen(a)xemacs.org) Subject: Re: Tags not working View this article only Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs Date: 2003-07-16 01:28:17 PST Michael> Under GNU Emacs, the unique tag name is seen as "baz", Michael> where XEmacs incorrectly sees the tag name "foobar" but Michael> not "baz". The XEmacs etags documentation describes the Michael> (more useful) behavior seen in GNU Emacs. Is this a bug? Michael> Can anyone shed some light on this? AFAIK XEmacs etags is closely synched to GNU Emacs's (ie, Francesco Portiorí's) etags, and has been for about two years. Please send a bug report if it doesn't get resolved quickly. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. Post a follow-up to this message Message 3 in thread From: Michael Spertus (mps(a)geodesic.com) Subject: Re: Tags not working View this article only Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs Date: 2003-07-17 19:45:08 PST "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote in message news:<87smp6oozs.fsf＠tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>... > > > Michael> Under GNU Emacs, the unique tag name is seen as "baz", > Michael> where XEmacs incorrectly sees the tag name "foobar" but > Michael> not "baz". The XEmacs etags documentation describes the > Michael> (more useful) behavior seen in GNU Emacs. Is this a bug? > Michael> Can anyone shed some light on this? > > AFAIK XEmacs etags is closely synched to GNU Emacs's (ie, Francesco > Portiorí's) etags, and has been for about two years. > > Please send a bug report if it doesn't get resolved quickly. This appears to be a longstanding problem. Looking through this newsgroup, there have been several complaints that "named tags" don't seem to work. Also, a quick look at etags.el doesn't seem to indicate any knowledge of named tags. This seems like a pretty serious bug in tags, to say the least, but it looks like no one has been motivated to fix it. I'll still submit a bug report, though. Post a follow-up to this message Message 4 in thread From: Stephen J. Turnbull (stephen(a)xemacs.org) Subject: Re: Tags not working View this article only Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs Date: 2003-07-18 04:18:50 PST Michael> This appears to be a longstanding problem. Looking Michael> through this newsgroup, there have been several Michael> complaints that "named tags" don't seem to work. This group is for users to help each other. The S/N for bugs here is far too low for it to be worth our while to troll for them. If we have time, and happen to see something that is clearly a bug, yes, we'll follow it up. But I often go weeks without reading this group, and many of the developers (including those who pay attention to etags internals) do not read it ever. Michael> Also, a quick look at etags.el What does etags.el have to do with this? I _have_ seen mention of etags.el. ... Oh, I see ... as I said, XEmacs 21.4.12's etags is not broken. It produces exactly the same file that GNU Emacs 21.3.2's etags does on your example. See what I mean about signal/noise? I'll see what can be done about synching to GNU Emacs's version of etags.EL. I seem to recall there was explicit objection to that in the past, though. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. Post a follow-up to this message ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- OS version: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] OS: Windows_NT XEmacs 21.4.8 \"Honest Recruiter (Windows)\" configured for `i586-pc-win32'. Building XEmacs in \"f:\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4-release\\nt\". Using compiler \"cl -nologo -W3 -O2 -G5 -ML\". Installing XEmacs in \"c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.8\". 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