Re: finding the tag I ask for

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From: Jamie Zawinski
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1991 20:51

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In article <1991Jun4.043047.5243@sctc.com> scott@sctc.com (Scott Hammond) wrote:
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> I have a situation where numerous tags have common subexpressions,
> such as open, xxopen, yyopen, etc.  The problem I'm having is that
> when I ask for the tag 'open' I get the first tag in the TAGS file
> that has open as a subexpression (or ends in open, I'm not sure).
...
> Is there some way to modify the search behavior to look for an
> exact match the first time?  Other ideas?

You can ask for the tag " open " or (in the case of emacs C DEFUNs)
"\"open\"".  Getting in this habit is probably the easiest solution... :-)

	-- Jamie

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