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

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From: Francesco Potorti`
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 11:06

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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.

Perhaps if find-tag was changed to use regular expressions?  Or a
find-tag-regexp was added?

		    Francesco Potorti`	| pot@cnuce.cnr.IT (Internet)
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Subject: find-tag should be able to search for an exact match
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