find-tag should be able to search for an exact match

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From: Paul Rubin
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 19:50

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There should be a way for meta-. to search for the routine
foo(), without showing foobar(), foobaz(), struct mumble_foo {}, etc.
In a large source tree, M-. can give so many false hits
as to be almost useless.  I don't know whether exact match
should be the default.

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From: phr@napa.telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
Subject: find-tag should be able to search for an exact match
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