From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 37008@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37008: 27.0.50; xref-find-definition versus find-tag in Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:34:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190812153431.GD31482@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835zn2towv.fsf@gnu.org>
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2019-08-12 16:55]:
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 03:52:31 +0200
> >
> >
> > A this node:
> >
> > File: eintr.info, Node: On Reading this Text, Next: Who You Are,
> > Prev: Why, Up: Preface
> >
> > reference is made to `find-tag' function. But function is obsolete
> > find-tag
> >
> > This function is obsolete since 25.1;
> > use ‘xref-find-definitions’ instead.
> > Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.20.
> >
> > Thus the manual should be corrected as not to confuse beginners.
>
> You are somehow reading a very old version of that manual, because
> this issue was fixed more than a year ago (see bug#31542), and Emacs
> 26 ships with the fix. I cannot find even a single reference to
> find-tag in eintr.info that comes with Emacs 26, let alone 27.
You are right.
I had distribution version on my computer. And I have assumed that GNU
Emacs is reading its own new version of info, but is not, it finds its
priorities somehow else.
I have removed now system distribution.
Thank you, then it is fine!
Jean
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-12 1:52 bug#37008: 27.0.50; xref-find-definition versus find-tag in Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp Jean Louis
2019-08-12 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-12 15:34 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2019-08-12 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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