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> From: Brian.Milnes@centro.soar.cs.cmu.edu
> 
> For example, if "." is my cursor in "(foo (bar x
> (* 3 x)) . (bax)) I'd love M-. to default to "foo". 

The correct way to do this is mode dependent.  How about make a local
binding of M . to find-elisp-tag, for example, which first gets the
appropriate default symbol, then calls find-tag with that.

>  Second, I'd like to see M-. search the tags in a closest match first manner.
> If I have two tags, "P" and "P-FOO" and I do a M-. on "P" I'd like to see the
> "P" tag first, as it is an exact (or closer fit).

This seems possible.  find-tag would make multiple passes over
the TAGS file.  On the first pass it could surround the tag symbol
with \< and \> for an exact match.

>  Finally, I'm curious about how you are going to build an extendable ETAGS.

It is mostly done.  All that is required to build a TAGS file for some
new kind of file is a function that finds the next tag entry in the file.

Dan LaLiberte
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