>>
>> From: Peter Gacs <gacs@cs.bu.edu>
> [...]
>> concerns tags-search and tags-query-replace, when the document uses
>> several files (a TAGS file was created by etags). In each file that
>> is being edited, the search/replacement starts from the position of
>> the cursor only, and misses the items before it.
>
> This is somewhat vague.


The situation is actually worse.  In my case, tags-query-replace does  
a frequently
a very partial job, even if I delete all buffers involved.
I have a long list of TeX files whose name is listed in a file called  
etags-files.
The TAGS file is created from it using etags `cat etags-files`.
I do a tags-query-replace, and only a few of the replacements will be  
done.
I can save the files involved and repeat the process; after maybe 5-4  
repetitions,
it goes through all.

The total length of the text is fairly large (245 printed pages), and  
I have not tried
to reproduce the behavior on small examples.  But I did not have it  
before Aquamacs.
Whether tags-search or tags-query-replace, pressing "n" for skipping,  
space for replacement and
M-, for resuming starting from point, always produced the expected  
result.

Peter Gacs

>
> I did:
>
> emacs -Q
> M-x tags-search file RET /path/to/TAGS-LISP
>
>    (where TAGS-LISP is as created in the Emacs src/ dir by one of the
>    build rules).
>
> This first takes me to abbrev.el.
> I press M-, a lot until I get to a new file, add-log.el.
>
> I move point in abbrev.el and add-log.el to the end of the buffer.
> I switch to scratch and do M-x tags-search again.
> It starts finding results from the beginning of abbrev.el.
>
> Thus, I don't see a problem (in either Emacs 22 or the CVS trunk).
>