From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent!
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 10:10:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvirb8isv6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HjxcO-0005NL-Jq@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (Francesco Potorti`'s message of "Fri\, 04 May 2007 15\:14\:40 +0200")
> So: either we implement the change to etags.el that I suggest above, or
> else I can add a couple of lines in the manual such as:
> Notice that, in the usual case of using relative file names, you should
> not use a symbolic link to a tags file in a different directory.
That seems like the better option. After all, it's very unusual to make
such symlinks to TAGS files, and it's not clear exactly what is the
motivation for such a thing: depending on the motivation the current
behavior can be wrong or right, and if we change it as you suggest, it will
still be sometimes right and sometimes wrong. Better keep things dumber, so
it's easier for the user to predict.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-04 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 20:26 find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent! A Soare
2007-05-03 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-04 13:14 ` Francesco Potorti`
2007-05-04 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-05-04 21:17 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-05 0:37 ` Francesco Potorti`
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-03 9:41 A Soare
2007-05-02 20:27 A Soare
2007-05-02 20:26 A Soare
2007-05-02 11:02 find-tag and partial completion mode A Soare
2007-05-02 17:44 ` find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent! Richard Stallman
2007-05-02 20:13 ` Glenn Morris
2007-05-02 20:02 ` Tom Tromey
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