bug#44494: etags.el xref-location-marker does not handle TAGS references to .el.gz files

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 22:31:02 -0500
> Cc: 44494@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  Do you see the same problem with 'M-x find-tag'?
> 
> Short answer:  yes
> 
> Longer answer:  you can try it on Emacs lib files.  
> 
> For example, I created a TAGS file that contains the following:
> 
> define-globalized-minor-mode global-prettify-symbols-mode^?247,10355
> (define-derived-mode prog-mode ^?251,10485
> ^L
> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/26.3/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/progmodes/cc-bytecomp.el,1014
> (defvar cc-bytecomp-unbound-variables ^?76,2968
> (defvar cc-bytecomp-original-functions ^?77,3011
> (defvar cc-bytecomp-original-properties ^?78,3055
> (defvar cc-bytecomp-loaded-files ^?79,3100
> (defvar cc-bytecomp-environment-set ^?86,3302
> (defmacro cc-bytecomp-debug-msg ^?88,3344
> (defun cc-bytecomp-compiling-or-loading ^?93,3432
> (defsubst cc-bytecomp-is-compiling ^?134,4714
> (defsubst cc-bytecomp-is-loading ^?138,4857
> (defun cc-bytecomp-setup-environment ^?143,5065
> (defun cc-bytecomp-restore-environment ^?191,6703
> (defun cc-bytecomp-load ^?256,8749
> (defmacro cc-require ^?293,10222
> (defmacro cc-conditional-require ^?305,10617
> (defmacro cc-conditional-require-after-load ^?318,11068
> (defmacro cc-provide ^?333,11627
> (defmacro cc-load ^?340,11887
> (defmacro cc-require-when-compile ^?351,12266
> (defmacro cc-external-require ^?362,12703
> (defmacro cc-bytecomp-defvar ^?371,13055
> (defmacro cc-bytecomp-defun ^?392,13857
> (defmacro cc-bytecomp-put ^?419,14990
> (defmacro cc-bytecomp-boundp ^?437,15739
> (defmacro cc-bytecomp-fboundp ^?447,16140
> ^L
> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/26.3/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/progmodes/make-mode.el,6494
> (defgroup makefile ^?95,3661
> (defface makefile-space^?101,3839
> (defface makefile-targets^?107,4026
> (defface makefile-shell^?114,4302
> 
> Then with the file /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/26.3/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/progmodes/cc-cmds.el.gz in a buffer
> and cc-bytecomp not loaded trying both
> 
> M-x xref-find-definitions cc-require
> 
> and
> 
> M-x find-tag cc-require
> 
> I get: 
> 
> Rerun etags: ‘^(defmacro cc-require ’ not found in
> /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/26.3/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/progmodes/cc-bytecomp.el

I cannot reproduce this: find-tag works in this situation, at least in
the current emacs-27 branch and in stock Emacs 27.1.  Which doesn't
surprise me, since etags.el already has code that handles compressed
files.

Moreover, M-. (which uses xref) works as well.  So I'm no longer sure
I understand what is the problem you are seeing.  If you see this in
Emacs 26, please retry in Emacs 27, and let's take this from there.

FTR, the steps I used for reproducing were slightly different:

  . "make TAGS" in the top-level directory of the Emacs source tree
  . gzip lisp/abbrevs.el
  . emacs -Q
  . C-x C-f lisp/simple.el
  . C-u M-. kill-all-abbrevs RET

And for find-tag, replace the last 2 commands with

  . M-x visit-tags-table RET RET
  . M-x find-tag RET kill-all-abbrevs RET

Both of these work and show abbrevs.el.gz at the correct line.