Re: Repeating tag searches does no longer work.

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Uh, yes.  It is C-u M-. that repeats M-.  Sorry for the false alarm.
>> > Would there be drawbacks if M-, also did it?
>> 
>> * Changes in version 19.
>> 
>> ** M-. (find-tag) no longer has any effect on what M-, will do
>> subsequently.  You can no longer use M-, to find the next similar tag;
>> you must use M-. with a prefix argument, instead.
>> 
>> The motive for this change is so that you can more reliably use
>> M-, to resume a suspended `tags-search' or `tags-query-replace'.
>
> Considering the relative frequency of those commands, I would have
> thought it more convenient to make C-u M-, resume a suspended
> `tags-search' or `tags-query-replace', while just M-, resumes whatever
> was done last.

Note that this change was established more than 12 years ago.

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revision 1.11
date: 1992/07/07 17:57:20;  author: rms;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
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--- etags.el	01 Aug 2004 16:10:26 +0200	1.10
+++ etags.el	01 Aug 2004 16:10:37 +0200	1.11
@@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ See documentation of variable tags-file-
 	(switch-to-buffer-other-window tagbuf)
       (switch-to-buffer tagbuf))
     )
-  (setq tags-loop-form '(find-tag nil t))
+;; I turned this off because people complain that it causes trouble
+;; when they find a tag during a tags-search.  M-0 M-. is easy enough. --RMS
+;;  (setq tags-loop-form '(find-tag nil t))
   ;; Return t in case used as the tags-loop-form.
   t)
 

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