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Article #1767It may be wise to rename "tags.el"
From: Martin Neitzel
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 23:07
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 23:07
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This one is not exactly a bug, but certainly a problem for non-expert emacs users. I'm currently working in a project involving both emacs and vi users, so we keep both "tags" and "TAGS" files in the directory (created by ctags and etags, respectively). The emacs users were somewhat surprised: find-tag wouldn't work sometimes and indicate lisp errors instead. Reason: They had "." (or nil) early in their load-path, so the auto-load for the tags package used ctags' tags file instead of the lisp code in the lisp file "tags.el" (or "tags.elc"). Once you've recognized what's going on, work-arounds are easy if you happen to be a somewhat experienced user. But I guess most novices wouldn't realize the problem here. So, wouldn't it be nice to avoid this situation at all and to rename tags.el? (How about etags.el?) Martin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!telly!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!shelby!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!unido!infbs!tubsibr!neitzel From: neitzel@tubsibr.uucp (Martin Neitzel) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: It may be wise to rename "tags.el" Message-ID: <1989Dec14.230712.4327@tubsibr.uucp> Date: 14 Dec 89 23:07:12 GMT Sender: neitzel@tubsibr.uucp (Martin Neitzel) Distribution: gnu Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 22