From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How do I use tags to go to begv_byte instead of BEGV_BYTE?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:31:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtypxcins.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik0UneRJXlSU5F7giuohO9-WSbj2xODfEepbRSO@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 24 May 2010 18:06:22 +0200")
> However it is a quite surprising organizing of case fold search
> handling. It looks like it does not care about major mode or buffer
> file extension, both of them which could be used to make a better
> guess for case fold search.
Yes, it's not perfect. To a large extent it is explained by the fact
that it's been that way for ages and back then Emacs did not try to be
nearly as clever.
Nowadays, I think etags.el would deserve to be improved so as to taken
the major mode into account, and also so as to give precedence to
case-exact matches, and also to automatically try the second-choice if
the first makes you jump to where you started.
IOW patches welcome,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-24 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-24 13:24 How do I use tags to go to begv_byte instead of BEGV_BYTE? Lennart Borgman
2010-05-24 15:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-05-24 15:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-24 15:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-05-24 16:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-24 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-05-24 18:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-29 1:04 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-08-30 21:39 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-01 12:38 ` Francesco Potortì
2010-09-01 20:00 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-01 20:39 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-01 20:59 ` Francesco Potortì
2010-09-01 20:57 ` Francesco Potortì
2010-09-01 21:36 ` Wojciech Meyer
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=jwvtypxcins.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org \
--to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=lennart.borgman@gmail.com \
--cc=schwab@linux-m68k.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).