From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Cc: 54543@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54543: Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of the manual
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:37:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmmbct6o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1lewztrxr.fsf@yahoo.es> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:12:48 +0100
> From: Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
>
> Steps to reproduce the problem:
>
> emacs -Q
> Eval (info "(emacs) Select Tags Table")
>
> The manual says at the beginning:
>
> "Emacs has at any time at most one “selected” tags table. All the
> commands for working with tags tables use the selected one."
>
> But then, later on, it says:
>
> "The tags commands use all the tags tables
> in the current list. If you start a new list, the new tags table is
> used _instead_ of others. If you add the new table to the current list,
> it is used _as well as_ the others."
>
> Doesn't this sound like a contradiction? I think the first sentence
> should say there's at most one selected "tags table _list_", right?
No. There's both the "selected" tags table and the "current set of
tags table" (what you call "tags table list").
The text is indeed a bit confusing, because it leads to this
interpretation, but the way to fix it is different from what you
thought. Hmm...
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2022-03-24 13:12 ` bug#54543: Unclear explanation in the "Select Tags Table" part of the manual Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-24 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-03-24 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-24 16:34 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-24 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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