Hi,

I use Emacs source tree as example.  Here is the way I create TAGS file.

$ etags src/*.[hc]

And then run M-x list-tags RET src/buffer.c RET to show buffer *Tags List*.
The first tag in it is current_buffer.  But when I press RET on it,
an error message shows up.  It's like

etags-goto-tag-location: Rerun etags: `^current_buffer' not found
in /home/liang/src/emacs/trunk/src/buffer.c

That's because etags-goto-tag-location wants implicit tag which starts from
 the beginning of the line, but current_buffer is an explicit tag.

To fix it, implicit tag must be used as link, but we can choose either
explicit tag
or implicit tag to show in *Tags List* buffer.

The following patch shows implicit tag.  OK for trunk?

Thanks,
Liang.


diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index a8be1ba..032dbfd 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-09-28  Liang Wang  <netcasper@gmail.com>
+
+	* progmodes/etags.el (etags-list-tags): Always use explicit tags.
+
 2011-09-21  Michael Albinus  <michael.albinus@gmx.de>

 	* net/tramp.el (tramp-handle-shell-command): Set process sentinel
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
index d321e9c..f38af05 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/etags.el
@@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ hits the start of file."
 	  tag tag-info pt)
     (forward-line 1)
     (while (not (or (eobp) (looking-at "\f")))
-      (setq tag-info (save-excursion (funcall snarf-tag-function t))
+      (setq tag-info (save-excursion (funcall snarf-tag-function nil))
 	    tag (car tag-info)
 	    pt (with-current-buffer standard-output (point)))
       (princ tag)